Title One
FELONIES AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH AFFECT CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Chapter Two
JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES and Circumstances which Exempt from Criminal Liability
ARTICLE 11. Justifying circumstances.
— The following do not incur any criminal liability :
4. Any person who, in order to avoid an evil or injury, does an act which causes damage to another, provided that the following requisites are present :
First. That the evil sought to be avoided actually exists ;
Second. That the injury feared be greater than that done to avoid it ;
Third. That there be no other practical and less harmful means of preventing it.
Necessity - national proceedings
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