Article 51

Any person who is responsible and eighteen years of age and is injured by an offence is entitled to preferring of charges. Where the injured person is an infant or a person of unsound mind and incapable of suing or being sued, his right to preferring charges shall be exercised by his legal representative.

Where the injured person dies before he was able to preferring charges without having expressly renounced so to do his right to preferring charges shall pass to his next of kin. Where he renounces his right and understands the effect of such renunciation, such renunciation shall be final.