Section 53 - Provocation

The following matters may amount to extreme provocation to one person to cause the death of another person, namely,

(a) an unlawful assault and battery committed on the accused person by the other person, in an unlawful fight or otherwise, which is of a kind, in respect of its violence or by reason of accompanying words, gestures, or other circumstances of insult or aggravation, that is likely to deprive a person of ordinary character and in the circumstances in which the accused person was, of the power of self-control;

(b) the assumption by the other person, at the commencement of an unlawful fight, of an attitude manifesting an intention of instantly attacking the accused person with deadly or dangerous means or in a deadly manner;

(c) an act of adultery committed in the view of the accused person with or by the wife or the husband, or the criminal offence of unnatural carnal knowledge committed in the husband’s or wife’s view on the wife, or the husband, or child; and

(d) a violent assault and battery committed in the view or presence of the accused person on the wife, husband, or child, or parent, or on any other person who is in the presence and in the care or charge of the accused person.