Sentence examples for special defense from inspiring English sources
noun
A special move used to defend against damage.
"That is a special defense, but Brett is a special guy.
Hollywood figures, including Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, lent their names to a special defense committee.
This language suggests that there is a special defense, a get-out-of-jail-free card for claiming a history of abuse.
The court denied the defendant's motion and later charged the jury to disregard the special defense of the statute of limitations.
With Barney and Rizzo under team control for the next few seasons, and Castro working on a contract extension, the Cubs have a chance to create a special defense.
The county officers denied the discrimination charged and also set up many special defenses.
One of the special defenses speaks of the president's having fixed one cent per pound as the profit which might be taken.
Nor did the special defenses set forth any facts which could be regarded as bringing the contracts within any prohibition of that section.
Of course, the special defenses could not derive any support from that section when there had been no action by the president under it.
As section 4 was invalid, whether taken as a civil regulation or as a criminal statute, it follows that in so far as the special defenses were based on it the demurrers were rightly sustained.
