{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:28","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Excess of Necessity","number":"28","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/28/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART I — THE GENERAL PART","book":"BOOK I — OFFENCES AND THE OFFENDER","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 4. — Absence of Criminal Responsibility"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Where the abandonment of the threatened right could reasonably have been required in the circumstances of the case or where the encroachment upon the third party’s rights exceeded what was necessary or where the doer, by his own fault, himself in the situation involving danger or necessity in which he found himself, the Court may, without restriction, reduce the penalty. (Article 66)","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/28/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":42,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/42/?article=28&paragraph=lead#article-28-lead"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}