Self Defense - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: self defense Page: 3Justification defense
Justification defense, means a defense that arises when the defendant has acted in a way that the law does not seek to prevent. Traditionally, the following defenses were justifications: Consent, self-defence, defense of others, defense of property, necessity (Choice of evils), the use of force to make an arrest, and the use of force by public authority, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 871....
exculpatory no doctrine
exculpatory no doctrine : a doctrine in federal criminal law: an individual cannot be charged with making a false statement if the statement is a false denial of guilt made in response to a federal investigator's question NOTE: This doctrine is based on the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, and is often used as a defense to a charge of knowingly making a false statement. The doctrine is recognized in most federal Courts of Appeals. ...
Battered Woman's syndrome
Battered Woman's syndrome, means the psycho-logical symptoms buffered by a woman repeatedly abused by a mate (as a husband), Battered Woman's syndrome is used as defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defence even though the threat or danger was not imminent; Battered Woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 46....
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