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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.
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.
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.
Use of the word "absolute" sometimes causes confusion, because even in the law "absolute" is sometimes used simply as a synonym for "full" or "complete". As a term or art, however, there are many complete defences which are not customarily called absolute. Most notably, innocence, while a complete defense to a criminal charge, is not generally ...
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.
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/
National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, ...
Defense (chess), a chess opening by Black; Defence, name of several ships HMS Defence, Royal Navy ships of this name; Thesis defense, oral examination required for certain advanced degrees; Defence mechanisms, unconscious psychological mechanisms that reduce anxiety "The Defence", a song by Black Midi from Hellfire