BRAINSTORM

Civil law defenses (English examples)

• Absolute privilege
• Act of God
• Act of State
• Agreement
• Assumption of risk
• Consent
• Contributory negligence
• Damage wholly claimant’s fault
• Defenses by statute
• Duress
• Estoppel
• Extinction of liability
• Fair comment
• Illegality
• Immunity
• Impossibility
• Invalidity
• Judicial acts
• Justification
• Laches
• Lack of consideration
• Leave/license
• Limitation
• Ministerial execution of decrees
• Mistake of fact
• Mistake of law
• Necessity
• Novus actus interveniens
• Prescriptive right
• Privilege
• Proportional and necessary in a democratic society
• Protection of property
• Qualified privilege
• Remoteness
• Self-defense
• Self-protection
• Statute of limitations
• Statutory authority
• Ultra-vires demand
• Unclean hands
• Unfair terms
• Void contract
• Volenti non fit injuria