The House of Lords asked the judges of the common law courts to answer five questions on insanity as a criminal defence, and the formulation that emerged from their review — that a defendant should not be held responsible for his actions only if, as a result of his mental disease or defect, he ( i ) did not know that his act would be wrong ; or ( ii ) did not understand the nature and quality of his actions — became the basis of the law governing legal responsibility in cases of insanity in England.

Défense de la Nation Britannique, 1693 was an elaborate defence of the Glorious Revolution, written in answer to Pierre Bayle's Avis important aux Réfugiés, 1690.

The speech which he delivered on 14 March 1809, in answer to the charges of Colonel Wardle, was regarded as the most able and ingenious defence of the duke that was made in the debate ; and Croker was appointed to the office of secretary to the Admiralty, which he held without interruption under various administrations for more than twenty years.

While Australian forces fought against the Boers in South Africa, the Boer methodology of conducting war was considered to be the answer for Australian defence.

Determined to be more radical than his most bitter enemy, he also outdid them " Moreover, Fest argued in his defence of Nolte that the overheated atmosphere in Munich following the overthrow of the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 "... gave Hitler's extermination complexes a real background " Finally, Fest wrote as part of his attack on the " singularity " of the Holocaust that :" There are questions upon questions, but no answer can be offered here.

The pamphlet was full of personal abuse, exposing Dennis's foibles, but offered no defence of Cato, and Addison repudiated any connivance in this attack, and indirectly notified Dennis that when he did answer his objections, it would be without personalities.

" Hill-Norton commented, " Either large numbers of people were hallucinating, and for an American Air Force nuclear base this is extremely dangerous, or what they say happened did happen, and in either of those circumstances there can only be one answer, and that is that it was of extreme defence interest.

Burke wrote that " My Idea was to proceed not so much by way of a direct answer to a charge, though that too, obliquely, was not be neglected ; as in the way of a charge on your Enemies, so as to put them upon their defence ".

" Full answer and defence " encompasses a number of things, including the right to counsel ( also see section 10 ), the right to examine witnesses, and most importantly, the right to full disclosure by the Crown ( see R. v. Stinchcombe, 1991 ).

Towards the end of Villes ' ministry, when there was a movement of public opinion in favor of extending municipal liberties, he undertook the defence of the threatened system of centralization, and composed, in answer to François Raynouard, an Histoire critique du pouvoir municipal depuis l ' origine de la monarchie jusqu ' à nos jours ( 1828 ).

He also wrote a suggestion for reform in the administration of justice entitled Libellus de optimo ordine forenses lites audiendi et deferendi ; an Apologia, written to answer the charges brought against him by Louis XI ; a Breviloquium, or allegorical account of his own misfortunes ; a Peregrinatio ; a defence of Joan of Arc entitled Opinio et consilium super processu et condemnatione Johanne, dicte Puelle and other miscellaneous writings.

In its closing address for Fhimah in weeks 26 and 27, the defence submitted there was no case for him to answer.

The defence claimed the accused had no case to answer.

The defendant's answer to an indictment was not accepted unless it was signed by counsel.

When counsel refused to sign the answer, for whatever reason, the defendant was considered to have confessed.

After being informed of the right to counsel, the accused may choose to voluntarily answer questions and those statements would be admissible.

" Get another independent counsel and I'll answer every question ".

In the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in July 2004, Kareri, under advisement from legal counsel, refused to answer any questions of the panel by invoking his 5th Amendment Rights.

Toudeby for the defendant pleaded no allegation of bailment, but Scrope, the counsel for the demandant ( plaintiff ), replied that, if the defendant carried off the chattels and a writ was brought to recover them, it was no answer to say that the chattels had not been bailed to the plaintiff.

" " Taylor shifted between defending the Bush administration and refusing to answer questions, claiming executive privilege via a letter from White House counsel Fred Fielding.

Also, since the man questioned feels a strong compulsion to answer ( and thereby avoid the consequences of being thought queer ) the question has assumed some measurable properties of a command.

There is no socially existential answer to the question.

It might be well to consider the literary evidence first because it can provide us with an answer to one important question ; ;

While Councilman Olson cited the anticipated increase in school costs in answer to a direct question from a taxpayer, the impact upon a school system does not have to be measured only in increased taxes to find alarm in uncontrolled growth.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;

For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.

Chewing it over with his colleagues and in his own mind, he reaches a tentative identification of the question -- tentative because it may change as he explores it further and because, if no tolerable answer can be found, it may have to be changed into one which can be answered.

He must think of others who have a stake in the question and in its answer.

More word class ratios determined in more languages will no doubt ultimately answer the question.

If there were more such cases, it would be easier to answer the question whether the policy-makers favor their own social classes.

Obviously, a satisfactory answer to the third question is imperative, if the argument is to get under way at all, for if there is any possibility of doubt whether the patient's tactual sensitivity had been impaired by the occipital lesion, any findings whatsoever in regard to the first question become completely ambiguous and fail altogether, of course, as evidence to establish the desired conclusion.

then we shall perhaps be in a position to provide something like a complete answer to the question at hand.

To that question the answer is simple ; ;

The real question was how one passed from anti-Semitism of this sort to murder, and the answer to this question is not to be found in anti-Semitism itself.

`` I feel I must answer the question '', he said, `` since the onus later, if any, should fall on me -- I don't relish recriminations spread broadcast outside my family.

Generally, an answer is a reply to a question or is a solution, a retaliation, or a response that is relevant to the said question.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

To try to answer this question more definitely, a randomized double-blind study was started in September 2008 and was completed in March 2010.

* Musical analysis – a process attempting to answer the question " How does this music work?

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

There is no clear answer to this question.