Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter IV · General Exceptions
100. When right of private defence of body extends to causing death
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The right of private defence of the body extends, under the restrictions mentioned in section 99, to the voluntary causing of death, or of any other harm, to the assailant if the offence which occasions the exercise of the right is of any of the following descriptions -
such an assault as may reasonably cause the apprehension that death will otherwise be the consequence of the assault;
such an assault as may reasonably cause the apprehension that grievous hurt will otherwise be the consequence of the assault;
an assault with the intention of committing rape;
an assault with the intention of gratifying unnatural lust;
an assault with the intention of kidnapping or abducting;
(0 an assault with the intention of wrongfully confining a person under circumstances which may reasonably cause him to
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