Litigation Civil Defenses
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Definition
Litigation Civil Defenses are legal arguments and strategies used by a party in a civil lawsuit to defend against the claims made by the opposing party, including but not limited to, affirmative defenses, evidentiary defenses, and procedural defenses.
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- • Arbitration and Award
- • Unclean Hands
- • Lack of Contractual Capacity Claim
- • Economic Loss Doctrine
- • Collateral Estoppel
- • Failure to Provide Notice
- • First Amendment Defense
- • Payment Defense
- • Last Clear Chance Doctrine
- • Failure of Consideration
- • Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent
- • Failure to Arbitrate
- • Plaintiff's Felonious Conduct
- • Act of God Doctrine
- • Champerty and Maintenance
- • Novation
- • Copyright Concept Objectives
- • Failure to Mitigate Damages
- • Discharge in Bankruptcy
- • Joinder
- • Intervention
- • Waiver
- • Failure to Mediate
- • Adverse Possession of Property
- • Discovery and Evidentiary Defenses
- • Failure to Obtain Auto Insurance
- • Vexatious Litigant
- • Economic Interest Defense
- • Proximate Cause
- • Statute of Frauds
- • Going and Coming Rule
- • Justiciability
- • Affirmative Defenses
- • Ratification
- • Empty Chair
- • Lack of Insurance Coverage
- • Bankruptcy Exemptions
- • Superseding Intervening Cause
- • Assumption of Risk
- • Immunity and Privilege
- • Accord and Satisfaction
- • Product Liability Defenses
- • Workers' Compensation Exclusive Remedy Doctrine
- • Force Majeure
- • Medical Malpractice Defenses
- • Impossibility of Performance
- • Duress
- • Incapacity
- • Limitations
- • Statute of Limitations
- • Frustration of Purpose Doctrine
- • Parol Evidence Rule
- • Patent Concept Objectives
- • Storm in Progress
- • Subrogation
- • Wagoner Rule
- • Contributory Negligence
- • Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
- • Release
- • Mistake in Contract
- • License (Agreement)
- • Laches
- • In Pari Delicto
- • Necessity of Trespass
- • Use Beyond Scope of Permission
- • Recreational Immunity
- • Illegality Doctrine
- • Injury by Fellow Servant
- • Stale Rent
- • Tendered Contract
- • Estoppel
- • Psychotherapist's Communication of Threat to Victim and Law Enforcement
- • Fraud
- • Failure To Use a Seatbelt
- • Comparative Negligence
- • Failure to State a Cause of Action
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