Nigerian Penal Code Act

Section 242 - Voluntarily causing hurt defined.

Whoever does an act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to a person or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to a person and does thereby cause hurt to a person is said voluntarily to cause hurt.

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