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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.
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.).
This defense is generally available to public servants and first responders, such as police officers, firefighters, EMTs, etc. It usually protects the first responder from responsibility for otherwise criminal actions that the first responder must perform as an appointed agent of the jurisdiction in the course and scope of their duties.
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.
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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.