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Self-defense   /sɛlf-dɪfˈɛns/   Listen
noun
Self-defense  n.  The act of defending one's own person, property, or reputation.
In self-defense (Law), in protection of self, it being permitted in law to a party on whom a grave wrong is attempted to resist the wrong, even at the peril of the life of the assailiant.





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"Self-defense" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Self-defense and carrying out the law will cover you, my boy. Don't worry about that. This city has been kept terror-stricken by these gangsters long enough, because honest citizens have been compelled by a ward politician's law to go without weapons of defense. ...
— Traffic in Souls - A Novel of Crime and Its Cure • Eustace Hale Ball
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... returned the Harvard man. "Our forefathers killed in self-defense. You folks are killing out ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
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... in whose lives life and death are matters of hourly business—matters of bread and butter and bank-account—acquire in self-defense a certain imperviousness; they learn to shed their responsibilities with facility in favor of digestion and sleep. Dr. Gunstone ate in a leisurely way, relishing his chops and coffee, and participating in the conversation of the family, who joined him one by one at the table. ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
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... 'em both," said Madge. "I'll sw'ar th' killin' was in self-defense; I'll sw'ar that Holton owned, before me, that he saw Joe leave th' stable afore ...
— In Old Kentucky • Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
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... so-called reconstruction acts, though as plainly unconstitutional as any that can be imagined, were not believed to be within the class last mentioned. The people were not wholly disarmed of the power of self-defense. In all the Northern States they still held in their hands the sacred right of the ballot, and it was safe to believe that in due time they would come to the rescue of their own institutions. It gives me pleasure to add that the appeal to our common ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 6: Andrew Johnson • James D. Richardson
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