No criminal responsibility shall arise from an infringement of a right of property, not justified as lawful defence under Section 84, but inflicted in order to protect the person acting or any other person, or his or another's property, from a grave and imminent danger not otherwise avoidable. Provided that the means of protection be proportionate to the harm.
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