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Which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 gives effect to the principle de minimis non curat…

Section 33 embodies the slight-harm rule. It asks whether the harm is so slight that a person of ordinary sense and temper would not complain of it.

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Which section of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 gives effect to the principle de minimis non curat lex by excluding an act on account of very slight harm?

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Section 33 embodies the slight-harm rule. It asks whether the harm is so slight that a person of ordinary sense and temper would not complain of it.

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Section 30 concerns certain acts done in good faith for a person’s benefit without consent.

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Section 31 concerns certain communications made in good faith for a person’s benefit.

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Section 32 concerns acts compelled by threats within its conditions.

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Section 33 concerns harm so slight that no person of ordinary sense and temper would complain of it.

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