castle doctrine

noun

variants or less commonly castle rule

plural castle doctrines also castle rules

law

: a legal rule or doctrine that a lawful occupant of a home has no duty to retreat from an intruder when acting in self-defense or in the defense of another in the reasonable belief that they are in danger of death or bodily harm

And when three people broke in about 3 a.m., Whitfield shot one of them, leaving the man dead on the kitchen floor. Police investigated the shooting, but Whitfield never really faced the prospect of prosecution. Missouri's expanded self-defense law, passed in 2007 and known as the castle doctrine, not only protected him from being charged but meant he couldn't be sued over his actions that night.

Kim Bell

After Florida's passage of a castle doctrine law in 2005, 31 states followed suit and now protect the right of homeowners to defend their property from intruders.

Patrik Jonsson

Word History

Etymology

from the proverbial expression an Englishman's/a man's home is his castle, with many variants, articulated in legal contexts since the sixteenth century in both English and Anglo-French

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined above

单词	castle doctrine
释义	castle doctrine noun variants or less commonly castle rule plural castle doctrines also castle rules law : a legal rule or doctrine that a lawful occupant of a home has no duty to retreat from an intruder when acting in self-defense or in the defense of another in the reasonable belief that they are in danger of death or bodily harm And when three people broke in about 3 a.m., Whitfield shot one of them, leaving the man dead on the kitchen floor. Police investigated the shooting, but Whitfield never really faced the prospect of prosecution. Missouri's expanded self-defense law, passed in 2007 and known as the castle doctrine, not only protected him from being charged but meant he couldn't be sued over his actions that night. Kim Bell After Florida's passage of a castle doctrine law in 2005, 31 states followed suit and now protect the right of homeowners to defend their property from intruders. Patrik Jonsson Word History Etymology from the proverbial expression an Englishman's/a man's home is his castle, with many variants, articulated in legal contexts since the sixteenth century in both English and Anglo-French First Known Use 1892, in the meaning defined above
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