Legal Defense and Educational Fund 〈美〉法律辩护及教育基金管理机构 在1939年原是全国有色人种协进会〔National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples/N.A.A.C.P.〕的一个组成部分，但现已独立出来。以前受当时在任的最高法院大法官马歇尔〔Thurgood Marshall〕监督指导。该组织由一批在上百件涉及僱佣、教育、住房、监狱等的民权案件中成功地担任辩护人的律师组成。
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National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund 〈美〉全国劳动权司法保护基金 由两名有影响的电视评论家威廉·F.巴克利〔William F.Buckley〕和斯坦顿·埃文斯〔M.Stanton Evans〕创立，旨在向反对加入一些全国性工会组织的人员提供帮助。
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Defense Legal Services Agency. An agency in the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for providing legal services to all agencies in the Department. • The General Counsel of the Department directs its operations. — Abbr. DLSA.
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self-defense, n. 1. The use of force to protect oneself, one’s family, or one’s property from a real or threatened attack. • Generally, a person is justified in using a reasonable amount of force in self-defense if he or she believes that the danger of bodily harm is imminent and that force is necessary to
takeover defense. A measure taken by a corporation to discourage hostile takeover attempts. — Often shortened to defense. — Also termed shark repellent. structural takeover defense. A legal mechanism adopted by a corporation to thwart any future takeover bid without having any financial or operational effect on the target corporation. transactional takeover defense. A financial
Nuremberg defense (n[y][schwa]r-[schwa]m-b[schwa]rg). The defense asserted by a member of the military who has been charged with the crime of failing to obey an order and who claims that the order was illegal, esp. that the order would result in a violation of international law. • The term is sometimes used more broadly to describe
illegality, n. 1. An act that is not authorized by law. 2. The state of not being legally authorized. “A contract made ultra vires is void; but not [strictly speaking] on the ground of illegality. Lord Cairns … takes exception to the use of the term ‘illegality,’ pointing out that it is not the object
A defense formerly available only in a court of equity but now maintainable in a court of law. • Examples include mistake, fraud, illegality, failure of consideration, forum non conveniens, laches, estoppel, and unclean hands.
legal theory. 1. See general jurisprudence under JURISPRUDENCE. 2. The principle under which a litigant proceeds, or on which a litigant bases its claims or defenses in a case.