There are many defenses to personal injury cases. There are those defenses which “negate” or “deny” liability like mistake of fact and there are also defenses which “avoid” liability such as “affirmative defenses” like assumption of the risk. By raising an affirmative defense, the defendant is asserting that even if the defendant committed all of […]
Part two of our blog about the protection of property will address personal property and the use of confinement and devices to protect all types of property. In the case of personal property, the use of force is justifiable when an individual believes that such force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate a trespass […]
“A man’s home is his castle” is a proverbial expression of personal privacy, security, and even whim, that dates back to Cicero asking rhetorically (in Latin, of course) “What more sacred, what more strongly guarded by every holy feeling, than a man’s own home?” In certain circumstances, Pennsylvania law permits persons to use force for […]
