Philippines

The Revised Penal Code of the Philippines

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.

Keywords

Necessity - national proceedings



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