PENAL CODE ACT
Arrangement of Sections
SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Establishment of Penal Code.
3. Punishment of offences committed in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
4. Offences against laws of the Federation.
5. Civil remedies.
6. Contempt of court.
SCHEDULE
CHAPTER I
GENERAL EXPLANATIONS AND INTERPRETATION
1. Sense of expression once explained.
2. Gender.
3. Number.
4. Man, woman.
5. Person.
6. Public.
7. Magistrate.
8. Court of justice.
9. Judicial proceedings.
10. Public officer.
11 Armed forces, military affairs.
12. Movable property.
13. Wrongful gain.
14. Wrongful loss.
16. Dishonestly.
17. Fraudulently.
18. Reason to believe.
19. Likely, probable.
20. Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant.
21. Counterfeit.
22. Writing document.
23. Document of title.
24. Words referring to acts include illegal omissions.
25. Act, omission.
26. Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission.
27. Voluntarily.
28. Offence.
29. Illegal.
30. Legally bound to do.
31. Injury.
32. Life, death.
33. Animal.
34. Vessel.,
35. Year, month
36. Oath.
37. Good faith.
38. Provocation.
39. Invalid consents.
40. Harbour.
41. Deleted.
42. Foreign government.
CHAPTER II
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
43. Common knowledge.
44. Presumption of knowledge of an intoxicated person.
45. Act done by person justified by law.
46. Act of court of justice.
47. Act done pursuant to the judgment or order of court.
48. Accident in doing a lawful act.
49. Act likely to cause injury, but done without criminal intent and to pre-vent other injury or to benefit person injured.
50. Act of child.
51. Act of a person of unsound mind.
52. Involuntary intoxication.
53. Act not intended to cause death or grievous hurt done by consent.
54. Act not intended to cause death done by consent for a person's benefit.
55. Correction of child, pupil, servant or wife.
56. Communication made in good faith.
57. Act to which a person is compelled by threats.
58. Act causing slight harm.
The Right of Private Defence
59. Things done in private defence.
60. Right of private defence.
61. Right of private defence against act of a person of unsound mind, etc.
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