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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 411 RIGHTS OF ACTION AND SURVIVAL OF ACTIONS
411.010 Action for assault -- Battery -- Provocation as a defense or in mitigation of punitive damages.
Download pdfdefendant may plead as a defense to the claim for punitive damages, and introduce in
evidence in mitigation of punitive damages, any matter of provocation that preceded the
assault or battery, if the provocation prompted the assault or battery and was of a nature
to cause a person of ordinary prudence and judgment to take the action taken by the
defendant. Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 73a-1.
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