civil commotion

Specific exclusions are often written into the contract to limit the liability of the insurer; for example claims relating to suicide, fraud, war, riot and civil commotion.

Interference with slavery will excite civil commotion in the South.

Please also note General Exclusion 7b - no cover is provided for loss or damage caused by riots or civil commotion.

Emperors and courtiers were used to living with the time stress: the compensation was that the place could never fall, even from riots and civil commotion.

He was a man of distinction in his native city, but because of the civil commotions there he went to Athens while still young.

These happenings were a first cumulation of a civil commotion, that had started a few days earlier with large strikes and demonstrations.

It also created the new crime of "civil commotion," which exposed to a penalty of 7 firm prison years.

However, "civil commotion" is included as a crime under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997.

A civil commotion caused a compromise (German:Rezeß, literally meaning: withdrawal).

Henceforth, there commenced such a bloody warfare between the whigs and tories, as is seldom recorded in the annals of even civil commotion.