Right of private defence permits defending person or property against specified offences, subject to statutory restrictions on its exercise. Right of private defence grants a qualified right to defend one's own body and the body of others, and to defend movable or immovable property of oneself or others against acts constituting theft, robbery, mischief or criminal trespass or attempts to commit those offences, subject to the restrictions set out in section 37.
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Right of private defence permits defending person or property against specified offences, subject to statutory restrictions on its exercise.
Right of private defence grants a qualified right to defend one's own body and the body of others, and to defend movable or immovable property of oneself or others against acts constituting theft, robbery, mischief or criminal trespass or attempts to commit those offences, subject to the restrictions set out in section 37.
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