Exempting Circumstance Requisites for validity Notes

An Imbecile or Insane No middle ground for insanity

person EXCEPT lucid
interval

Under 9 yrs Age

Over 9 yrs below 15, 1. Over 15, below 18

EXCEPT acted with 2. Acted without discernment
discernment
Accident 1. Performing a lawful act
2. Due care
3. Caused injury
4. Without fault or intention

Irresistible Force 1. The compulsion by means of

physical force
2. Force is irresistible
3. The force is from a 3rd person

Uncontrollable fear of an
equal or greater injury
1. The threat is greater or at least
equal which he is required to
committed
2. It promises of an evil with such
gravity and imminence that the
ordinary man would have
succumbed to it.

Failure to perform due to 1. Act to be done to lawful

insuperable force 2. Failure to perform
3. Due to some lawful or
insuperable act