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Structural division: BOOK V › party
Article 616 — Provocation and Retaliation
Revised Criminal Code (English)
Article text
(1) The Court may impose no punishment where a person charged with insulting behaviour or outrage has been provoked or carried away by an attitude, conduct or acts, even towards a third party, which are manifestly so shocking, offensive or reprehensible as to make his act excusable.
(2) Where the injured party has at once replied to an insult or outrage in kind, the Court may, according to the circumstances, exempt from punishment both criminate or one of them.
Article 6
Exception: Application of the More Favourable Law.
