affirmative defense
noun1
Law A defense against a suit or criminal charge that asserts mitigating facts rather than contesting the main fact of the allegation.
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noun
Law A defense against a suit or criminal charge that asserts mitigating facts rather than contesting the main fact of the allegation.
Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.
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