legal exceptions
Allowed special cases
Legal exceptions are specific circumstances or categories that a law explicitly excludes from its general application.
Most laws contain built-in exceptions—self-defense is an exception to prohibitions on violence, fair use is an exception to copyright restrictions.
The statute bans firearms on school grounds, with a legal exception for law enforcement officers.
Lawyers often argue that their client's situation falls within an established exception.
- carve-outsExcluded portions from agreements
- waiversVoluntary right surrenders
- estoppelBar against contradicting oneself
- exemptionsReleases from obligation
- grandfather clausesExemptions for preexisting conditions
undue hardship · reasonable accommodation · safe harbors · statute of limitations · exclusions · immunities · diplomatic immunity · qualified immunity · continuances · dismissals · judicial discretion · sunset clauses · loopholes · variances · conscientious objection · affirmative defense · fiduciary duties · force majeure
- legal defensesself-defense, alibi, affirmative defense, insanity defense, insanity
- legal necessitynecessity, justification, duress, compulsion, imminent danger
- contract breachbreach of contract, contract breach, material breach, non-performance, repudiation
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