nounnot in the study set
der Befehlsnotstand
forcible coercion to obey unlawful orders
- genitive
- des Befehlsnotstandes
- plural
- die Befehlsnotstände
- built from
- Befehls + Notstand
Meanings
- 1
forcible coercion to obey unlawful orders — a legal situation in which someone can be absolved of responsibility for carrying out an illegal act, including a war crime, because they were threatened with great bodily injury or death if they refused
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | derBefehlsnotstand | dieBefehlsnotstände |
| accusative | denBefehlsnotstand | dieBefehlsnotstände |
| dative | demBefehlsnotstand | denBefehlsnotständen |
| genitive | desBefehlsnotstandes | derBefehlsnotstände |
Forms in lighter type are derived by the standard declension rules from the nominative, genitive and plural.