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单词 castle doctrine
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castle doctrine
castle doctrine n. Law (a) the principle that one's home should be a place of privacy and freedom from interference (now rare); (b) U.S. the principle that one is justified in the use of deadly force to protect one's home and its inhabitants from intruders, without being obliged to retreat. [Compare an Englishman's (also man's, etc.) home is his castle at Additions.]
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1875 Isle of Man Times 2 Oct. 4/4 Every Englishman's house is his castle..but if he chooses to emit from his dwelling place noxious effluvia.., the..‘castle’ doctrine won't save him from the..law.
1892 Albany Law Jrnl. 14 May 408/1 Mr. Attorney is too good a lawyer seriously to have applied the ‘castle’ doctrine to a man's public place of business, especially a grog-shop.
1895 Green Bag Sept. 436 The case of Babe Beard, in the United States supreme court..was a case of homicide upon the defendant's premises and in resistance to an unlawful carrying away of his property, and must be regarded as a notable extension of the ‘castle’ doctrine.
1978 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Oct. d6/1 The trial judge refused to Mr. Gainer's lawyer's request that the jury be given instructions concerning the castle doctrine.
1999 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 12 Mar. 6 c The justices receded from a 1982 decision that carved out an exception for domestic violence cases to the ‘castle doctrine’.
2015 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Mar. a1 In Wisconsin,..Walker signed a ‘Castle Doctrine’ law, giving gun owners new leeway to use deadly force against threatening intruders without first trying to flee.
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