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In a civil proceeding or criminal prosecution under the common law or under statute, a defendant may raise a defense (or defence) [a] in an effort to avert civil liability or criminal conviction. A defense is put forward by a party to defeat a suit or action brought against the party, and may be based on legal grounds or on factual claims.
defence, defense; 1) dispatch (standard) or late 18th-early 20th C. variant 2) despatch, dispatch [1] diarrhoea, diarrhea; dialogue, dialog; disc, disk; distil, distill; doughnut, donut (see Doughnut § Etymology for the source of the short spelling) draught, draft; dreamt /drɛmt/, dreamed /driːmd/
In many team sports, defense (American spelling) or defence (Commonwealth spelling) is the action of preventing an opponent from scoring.The term may also refer to the tactics involved in defense, or a sub-team whose primary responsibility is defense.
The phrase Defence Force(s) (or Defense Force(s) in US English - see spelling differences) is in the title of the armed forces of certain countries and territories.
Building of Russian Ministry of Defence at Frunzenskaya Embankment. Moscow, Russia. A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments.
Note 1: In Canada, the majority of words are spelled with British Oxford spelling (defence, labour, centre, cheque, catalogue, etc., and the suffix -ize and -yse instead of the popular variant -ise and -yse), but many are spelled with American spelling (tire, curb, program, livable, draft, cozy, aluminum, etc.).
For example, a charge of assault on a police officer may be negated by genuine (and perhaps reasonable) mistake of fact that the person the defendant assaulted was a criminal and not an officer, thus allowing a defense of use of force to prevent a violent crime (generally part of self-defense/defense of person). [12]
Defence or defense (in American English) in ice hockey is a player position that is primarily responsible for preventing the opposing team from scoring. They are often referred to as defencemen , D , D-men or blueliners (the latter a reference to the blue line in ice hockey which represents the boundary of the offensive zone; defencemen ...