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* Se Defendendo *

SE DEFENDENDO - criminal law. Defending himself.

Homicide, se defendendo, is that which takes place upon a sudden encounter, where two persons upon a sudden quarrel, without premeditation or malice, fight upon equal terms, and one, before a mortal stroke has been given, declines any further combat, and retreats as far as he can with safety, and kills his adversary, through necessity, to avoid immediate death.
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