Nigerian Penal Code Act
Section 65 - When right of private defence of the body extends to causing death.
The right of private defence of the body extends, under the restrictions mentioned in sections 62 and 63 of this Penal Code, to the voluntary causing death only when the act to be repelled is of any of the following descriptions, namely-
(a) an attack which causes reasonable apprehension of death or grievous hurt; or
(b) rape or an assault with the intention of gratifying unnatural lust; or .
(c) abduction or kidnapping.
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