Section 291 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Defence of movable property without claim of right

When a person who is entitled by law to the possession of movable property, attempts to take from a person who is in possession of the property, but who neither claims right to it, nor acts by the authority of a person who claims right, and the person in possession resists him, it is lawful for the person so entitled to possession to use force in order to obtain possession of the property, provided that he does not do harm to the person in possession.

Section 291 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria

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