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

BOOK I-GENERAL PART

TITLE II-THE ACT

CHAPTER II-FORMS OF CRIME

Article 30
Concurrence of crimes and continuous crime
1. The number of crimes is determined b
y the number of types of crime really committed, or by the number of times that the some type of crime is fulfilled by the agent’s conduct.

2. The multiple accomplishment of the same type of crime or of several types of crime that fundamentally protect the same juridical asset constitutes only one continuous crime, when performed in an essentially homogeneous way and under the solicitation of a same external situation that considerably diminishes the agent’s culpability.

Keywords

Continuous criminal offences
Multiplicity of criminal offences
Repetition of criminal offences



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