The only issue before the court concerned the defence of lawful excuse.

The verdict means that the killing was done without lawful excuse and in breach of criminal law.

The protesters argued that they had a 'lawful excuse' for what they did.

It was the first case where preventing property damage caused by climate change has been used as part of a "lawful excuse" defence in court.

It is also a crime to possess a seditious publication without a "lawful excuse".

The courts have said that a defendant relying upon lawful excuse as a defence need not necessarily seek to put himself within section 5.

If a person is merely using public place reasonably, they cannot be said to be acting without lawful excuse.

His failure to honour that obligation without lawful excuse constituted a breach of promise.

One needs an authorization, or a lawful excuse.

He claimed an honest belief in that by doing this, he had a lawful excuse within section 5(2).

Trespass to land: Committed when an individual intentionally enters the land of another without lawful excuse.

Possession of spray cans, "without a lawful excuse", on, or around, public transport became illegal, and police search powers were also strengthened.

The lawful excuse defence was invoked, according to which it can be lawful to commit an offence to prevent a more serious crime.

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On 16 August a 49-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of preventing the burial of a body without lawful excuse.

"Without lawful excuse"

Thus a lawful excuse may be acknowledged by a court to arise when a person honestly but mistakenly believes that the actions are necessary and reasonable.

(c) Apparently the most authoritative: "Any intentional touching without the consent of that person and without lawful excuse.

Mora is best defined as "delay without lawful excuse of the performance of a contractual duty or a wrongful failure to perform timeously."

In English law, a contramandatum was a lawful excuse, which the defendant by his attorney alleged for himself, to show that the plaintiff had no cause to complain.

The court stressed that any physical obstruction of a public place must be accompanied by the element of "without a lawful excuse" in order to constitute an offence.

The jury, despite nearly four hours of deliberation and a direction from the judge that it could decide by majority, failed to agree on whether or not he had "lawful excuse".

If, on the other hand, the child did not consent, the consent of the person having custody or care and control of the child may support a defence of lawful excuse.

The activists were cleared by the jury who accepted their defence that they were acting with lawful excuse by preventing Israeli war crimes during the 2009 Gaza War.

In Northern Ireland, various paramilitary groups and members of the British armed forces and the Royal Ulster Constabulary killed without lawful excuse during The Troubles.