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Voluntary abandonment of an attempted offence

Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.

What it means

Voluntarily abandoning the attempt or preventing completion under the statutory conditions. This may exclude liability for the attempted offence without removing liability for other offences already committed.

Legal reference

Spanish Criminal Code · art. 16

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