Bare Acts  | Legal Resources  | Lawyer Locater  | Articles  | Legal Dictionary  | Download Desktop Software  | Subscription   Home   |   E-Journal  |  Sign-In  | Contact Us  | Disclaimers

Supreme Court of India
 Search Tips
Criminal Law
Bare Acts
Indian Penal Code,1860
Section 1-49
Section 8
Section 9
Section 10
Section 11
Section 12
Section 13
Section 15
Section 17
Section 18
Section 19
Section 20
Section 21
Section 22
Section 23
Section 24
Section 25
Section 26
Section 28
Section 29
Section 29-A
Section 30
Section 31
Section 33
Section 39
Section 40
Section 41
Section 42
Section 44
Section 45
Section 46
Section 47
Section 48
Section 49
Section 39- Voluntarily

A person is said to cause an effect "voluntarily" when he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at the time of employing those means, he knew or had reason to believe to be likely to cause it.

Illustration

A sets fire, by night, to an inhabited house in a large town, for the purpose of facilitating a robbery and thus causes the death of a person. Here, A may not have intended to cause death; and may even be sorry that death has been caused by his act; yet, if he knew that he was likely to cause death, he has caused death voluntarily.

     
@2016 Indian Law
Our Ventures