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Principal liability
Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.
What it means
The involvement of someone who carries out the act alone, jointly or through another person. The Criminal Code also treats instigation and necessary assistance as forms of principal liability.
Legal reference
Spanish Criminal Code · art. 28
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