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The Portuguese Penal Code General Part (Articles 1-130)

BOOK I-GENERAL PART

TITLE II-THE ACT

CHAPTER I-BASES OF PUNISHABILITY

Article 13
Intent and Negligence

Only acts committed with intent are punishable or, in the cases especially prescribed in the law, with negligence.


Article 14
Intent

1- Whoever, representing an act that constitutes a type of crime, carries it on, with the purpose of accomplishing it, acts with intent.

2- A person still acts with intent when he represents the accomplishment of an act that constitutes a type of crime as a necessary consequence of his conduct.

3- When the accomplishment of an act that constitutes a type of crime is represented as a possible consequence of the conduct, there is intent if the agent acts accepting that accomplishment.


Article 15
Negligence

A person acts with negligence when he does not behave with the care to which, according to circumstances, is obliged and is capable of, and:
a) Represents as possible the accomplishment of an act that constitutes a type of crime, but acts without accepting that accomplishment; or
b) Does not even represent the possibility of the accomplishment of that act.

Keywords

Mental element



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