PROVOCATION
Provocation
In criminal law, provocation may be either or both a statutory or common law possible defense or an offense. Provocation may be a defense by excuse or exculpation alleging a sudden or temporary loss of control as a response to another's provocative conduct sufficient to justify an acquittal, a mitigated sentence or a conviction for a lesser charge.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Provocation (legal)
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provocation
Noun
- The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something
- Something that provokes; a provocative act
- The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
- When its time to check for provocation ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.
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