Resistance
Re`sist´ance Pronunciation: ~ans
RESISTANCE. The opposition of force to force.
2. Resistance is either lawful or unlawful. 1. It is lawful to resist
one who is in the act of committing a felony or other crime, or who
maliciously endeavors to commit such felony or crime. See self defence. And
a man may oppose force to force against one who endeavors to make an arrest,
or to enter his house without lawful authority for the purpose; or, if in
certain cases he abuse such authority, and do more than he was authorized to
do; or if it turn out in the result he has no right to enter, then the party
about to be imprisoned, or whose house is about to be illegally entered, may
resist the illegal imprisonment or entry by self-defence, not using any
dangerous weapons, and may escape, be rescued, or even break prison, and
others may assist him in so doing. 5 Taunt. 765; 1 B. & Adol, 166; 1 East,
P. C. 295; 5 East, 304; 1 Chit. Pr. 634. See Regular and Irregular Process.
3.-2. Resistance is unlawful when the persons having a lawful
authority to arrest, apprehend, or imprison, or otherwise to advance or
execute the public justice of the country, either civil or criminal, and
using the proper means for that purpose, are resisted in so doing; and if
the party guilty of such resistance, or others assisting him, be killed in
the struggle, such homicide is justifiable; while on the other hand, if the
officer be killed, it will, at common law, be murder in those who resist.
Fost. 270; 1 Hale, 457; 1 East, P. C. 305.
Charley,
VC,
Vietcong,
acquired immunity,
active immunity,
alienation,
antagonism,
antibody,
antigen,
antipathy,
arrest,
arrestation,
arrestment,
artificial immunity,
autism,
autistic thinking,
averseness,
aversion,
avoidance mechanism,
avoidance reaction,
backlash,
backwardness,
base resistance,
blame-shifting,
block,
blockage,
blocking,
bucking,
bushfighter,
bushwhacker,
callosity,
callousness,
capacitive reactance,
casual,
censorship,
challenge,
check,
clashing,
clogging,
closing up,
closure,
coefficient of friction,
cohesiveness,
collision,
compensation,
conflict,
confutation,
congenital immunity,
constriction,
contention,
contradiction,
contraposition,
contrariety,
contravention,
contraversion,
contumaciousness,
contumacy,
counteraction,
counterposition,
counterworking,
cramp,
crankiness,
crosscurrent,
crossing,
crotchetiness,
cursoriness,
decompensation,
defence,
defense,
defense in depth,
defense mechanism,
defenses,
defiance,
delay,
denial,
density,
dereism,
dereistic thinking,
detainment,
detention,
deterrent capacity,
disagreement,
disinclination,
disobedience,
displacement,
disrelish,
dissent,
dissociation,
distaste,
drag,
durability,
durity,
ego defenses,
electric resistance,
emitter resistance,
emotional insulation,
escape,
escape into fantasy,
escape mechanism,
escapism,
familial immunity,
fantasizing,
fantasy,
fixation,
flight,
flintiness,
fluid friction,
foot-dragging,
force of friction,
force of viscosity,
forward transfer resistance,
fractiousness,
friction,
friction head,
friction loss,
frictional resistance,
grudging consent,
grudgingness,
guard,
guerillas,
guerrilla,
hampering,
hardiness,
hardness,
hardness of heart,
head wind,
hindering,
hindrance,
holdback,
holdup,
immunity,
immunization,
impedance,
impediment,
impenetrability,
impugnation,
impugnment,
incorrigibility,
indisposedness,
indisposition,
indocility,
indomitability,
inductive reactance,
induration,
infrangibility,
inherent immunity,
inherited immunity,
inhibition,
input resistance,
insuppressibility,
interference,
internal friction,
interruption,
intractability,
intractableness,
intransigence,
irregular,
irrepressibility,
isolation,
kick,
lack of enthusiasm,
lack of zeal,
lastingness,
leatherlikeness,
let,
magnetic reluctance,
maquis,
maquisard,
mutinousness,
natural immunity,
negation,
negative taxis,
negativism,
nolition,
nonconformity,
nonspecific immunity,
nonsusceptibility to disease,
nuisance value,
obduracy,
obstinacy,
obstreperousness,
obstruction,
obstructionism,
occlusion,
ohm,
ohmage,
opposing,
opposition,
opposure,
oppugnance,
oppugnancy,
oppugnation,
opsonic immunity,
output resistance,
overcompensation,
partisan,
passive immunity,
perfunctoriness,
perverseness,
phagocytic immunity,
projection,
protection,
psychological block,
psychological defenses,
psychotaxis,
racial immunity,
rationalization,
reactance,
reaction,
rebelliousness,
rebutment,
rebuttal,
recalcitrance,
recalcitrancy,
recoil,
refractoriness,
refusal,
rejection,
reluctance,
reluctivity,
renitence,
renitency,
repercussion,
repression,
repugnance,
resistance fighter,
restiveness,
restraint,
restriction,
retardation,
retardment,
revolt,
rolling friction,
ropiness,
self-defense,
self-preservation,
self-protection,
setback,
shrewishness,
skin effect,
skin friction,
sliding friction,
slip friction,
slowness,
sociological adjustive reactions,
solidity,
specific immunity,
specific reluctance,
squeeze,
stamina,
standing against,
starting friction,
static friction,
steeliness,
stiffness,
stoniness,
stranglehold,
strength,
stricture,
stringiness,
stubbornness,
sublimation,
substitution,
sulk,
sulkiness,
sulks,
sullenness,
suppression,
surface resistance,
swimming upstream,
tenacity,
the defensive,
toughness,
toxin-antitoxin immunity,
traversal,
unbreakability,
unbreakableness,
uncontrollability,
undercurrent,
underground,
underground fighter,
unenthusiasm,
ungovernability,
unmalleability,
unmanageability,
unmoldableness,
unruliness,
unsubmissiveness,
untamableness,
unwillingness,
viscidity,
vitality,
volume resistance,
ward,
wildness,
wish-fulfillment fantasy,
wishful thinking,
withdrawal
resistance - the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead"