Mutiny definition

Mutiny means a wilful resistance by members of legally armed or peace-keeping forces to a superior officer.
Mutiny means insurrection by the crew against the officers, cf. section 312 of the Norwegian Penal Code. This alternative will hardly be of any major practical significance. It has been placed within the range of war risks inter alia because it may be difficult to distinguish between mutiny and piracy, typically where bandits who have signed on as ordinary crew members incite mutiny.
Mutiny means 3 or more prisoners collectively challenging authority under this Act, with intent to subvert the authority, if the security of the facility is endangered.

Examples of Mutiny in a sentence

  • Mutiny, riot, military or popular rising, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, military or usurped power, martial law or state of siege or any of the events or causes which determine the proclamation or maintenance of martial law or state of siege.

  • From Empire to the War on Terror: The 1915 Indian Sepoy Mutiny in Singapore as a case study of the impact of profiling of religious and ethnic minorities.

  • Mutiny, Civil Commotion assuming the proportion of or amounting to a popular-rising, military rising, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, military or usurped power.

  • War, Invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities or war like operation (whether war be declared or not), Civil War, Rebellion Revolution Insurrection, Mutiny, Civil Commotion, Military or usurped power, martial law, conspiracy, confiscation, commandeering a group of malicious person or persons acting on behalf of or in connection with any political organisation, requisition or destruction or damage by order of any government de jure or de facto or by any public, Municipal or Local Authority.

  • Mutiny, riot, military or popular rising, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, military or usurped power.


More Definitions of Mutiny

Mutiny means a combination between prison officers or a combination between prisoners or a combination between prison officers and prisoners to overthrow or resist or attempt to overthrow or resist lawful authority in the Prison Service or any part thereof;
Mutiny means an agreement between persons two at least of whom are members— (a ) to overthrow or to resist lawful authority in—
Mutiny means a more or less organized violent movement of its participants with a certain degree of armed power, directed against the authority to which they had been subjected.
Mutiny means a combination of two or more persons subject to the Code of Military Discipline or the service law of an ally of Papua New Guinea, or between persons of whom at least two are such persons–
Mutiny means an agreement between persons two at least of whom are members—
Mutiny means a combination between two or more persons who are subject to service law, or between persons two at least of whom are subject to service law
Mutiny means 3 or more prisoners collectively challenging authority 30