Cap. 9 Art. 224Cases of lawful defence.

Cases of actual necessity of lawful defence shall include the following:

(a) where the homicide or bodily harm is committed in the act of repelling, during the night-time, the scaling or breaking of enclosures, walls, or the entrance doors of any house or inhabited apartment, or of the appurtenances thereof having a direct or an indirect communication with such house or apartment;

(b) where the homicide or bodily harm is committed in the act of defence against any person committing theft or plunder, with violence, or attempting to commit such theft or plunder;

(c) where the homicide or bodily harm is imposed by the actual necessity of the defence of one’s own chastity or of the chastity of another person.