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Overwhelming fear
Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.
What it means
A circumstance capable of excluding liability when fear reaches the intensity and other conditions required by law. Pressure or apprehension alone does not establish it.
Legal reference
Spanish Criminal Code · art. 20
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