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    Question

    When the right of private defense of property extends

    to causing death:
    A Robbery Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Housebreaking by night Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Mischief by fire committed on any building used for human dwelling Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D All of the above Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    S. 103. When the right of private defence of property extends to causing death.— The right of private defence of property extends, under the restrictions mentioned in section 99, to the voluntary causing of death o.r of any other harm to the wrong-doer, if the offence, the committing of which, or the attempting to commit which, occasions the exercise of the right, be an offence of any of the descriptions hereinafter enumerated, namely:— (First) — Robbery; (Secondly) —House-breaking by night; (Thirdly) — Mischief by fire committed on any building, tent or vessel, which building, tent or vessel is used as a human dwell­ing, or as a place for the custody of property; (Fourthly) —Theft, mischief, or house-trespass, under such circum­stances as may reasonably cause apprehension that death or griev­ous hurt will be the consequence, if such right of private de­fence is not exercised

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