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The Penal Code, 1860

Section 104When such right extends to causing any harm other than death

In forceChapter IV GENERAL EXCEPTIONS

Chapter IV GENERAL EXCEPTIONS

Of the Right of the Private Defence

s. 104

104. When such right extends to causing any harm other than death If the offence, the committing of which, or the attempting to commit which, occasions the exercise of the right of private defence, be theft, mischief, or criminal trespass, not of any of the descriptions enumerated in the last preceding section, that right does not extend to the voluntary causing of death, but does extend, subject to the restrictions mentioned in section 99, to the voluntary causing to the wrong-doer of any harm other than death.

End of s. 104.

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