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The attorney who represents either the defendant in a civil lawsuit or in a criminal prosecution. … [Read more...] about DEFENSE ATTORNEY

Lat. Defect; default; want; imperfection; disqualification. Challenge propter defectum. A challenge to a juror on account of some legal disqualification, such as infancy, etc. See CHALLENGE. Defectus sanguinis. Failure of the blood, {. e., failure or want of issue. … [Read more...] about DEFECTUS

Also known as DOMA, it defines marriage as being the relationship of one man and one woman, specifically to exclude same sex marriages. There is a federal DOMA and some states have adopted DOMA, which prevents them from recognizing same sex marriages. … [Read more...] about DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT

(A) torts. A forcible resistance of an attack by force. 2. A man is justified, in defending his person, that of his wife, children, and servants, and for this purpose he may use as much force as may be necessary, even to killing the assailant, remembering that the means used must always be proportioned to the occasion, and an excess becomes, itself, an injury. 3. A man may also … [Read more...] about DEFENCE

In old English law. A lord or earl of the marches, who was the warden and defender of his country. Cowell. … [Read more...] about DEFENSIVA