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CIVIL PRACTICE & REMEDIES CODE

CHAPTER 83. USE OF DEADLY FORCE IN DEFENSE OF PERSON


	§ 83.001. AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE.  It is an affirmative 
defense to a civil action for damages for personal injury or death 
that the defendant, at the time the cause of action arose, was 
justified in using deadly force under Section 9.32, Penal Code, 
against a person who at the time of the use of force was committing 
an offense of unlawful entry in the habitation of the defendant.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 235, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.