Section 42: If the offence, the committing of which, or the attempting to commit which occasions
right extends the exercise of the right of private defence, be theft, mischief, or criminal trespass, not of any
to causing any
harm other
of the descriptions specified in section 41, that right does not extend to the voluntary
than death. causing of death, but does extend, subject to the restrictions specified in section 37, to the
voluntary causing to the wrong-doer of any harm other than death.