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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 154

   Special cases of homicide
A person is deemed to have killed another in the following cases where his act or omission is not the immediate, or not the sole, cause of death:
(a) where he causes bodily injury to the other which requires surgical or medical treatment, and such treatment causes death, if such treatment is applied in good faith, and with reasonable knowledge and skill, but not otherwise;
(b) where he causes bodily injury to the other which causes death, though it would not have caused death if the other had submitted to proper treatment or had observed proper precautions;
(c) where by actual violence, or threats, or intimidation of any kind, or by deceit, he causes the other to do an act or make an omission likely to cause death, and which he knows, or ought to have known, the other would be likely to do, and which causes the death of the other;
(d) where by any act or omission he hastens the death of another who is suffering under any disease or injury which would itself have caused death;
(e) where his act or omission causes death, but would not have caused death unless it had been accompanied by the acts or omissions of the person killed or of other persons.



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