No person shall be found guilty where he is in peaceable possession of property and uses force:
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 30
Defense of Property · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
to prevent another person from unlawfully taking, or committing a trespass with respect to the property; or
to retake the property from a person who has just unlawfully taken it; or
in the case of property that is land, to remove a trespasser from the land.
Sub-Article (1) does not apply where the person:
intentionally kills or inflicts serious bodily injury on another person; or
uses more force than is reasonable for the purposes described in that subsection.