LEGAL WORD

Grave and sudden provocation

Legal term · Criminal law

Grave and sudden provocation

  • Type: Legal term
  • Area of law: Criminal law

1 What it means

Provocation that deprives a person of self control and reduces murder to culpable homicide.

2 Use it in a sentence

The court found grave and sudden provocation and altered the conviction.

3 Make it stick

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