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German Penal Code

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General Part Chapter 1.  The Penal Law Title 1.  Scope of Applicability

§ 1.  No punishment without statutory law.
§ 2.  Temporal applicability.
§ 3.  Applicability to acts within the country.
§ 4.  Applicability to acts on German ships and aircraft.
§ 5.  Acts outside the country against law goods within the country.
§ 6.  Acts outside the country against internationally protected law goods.
§ 7.  Applicability to acts outside the country in other cases.
§ 8.  Time of the act.
§ 9.  Place of the act.
§ 10.  Special provisions for juveniles and young adults.

 
Title 2.  Terminology

§ 11.  Terms pertaining to persons and things.
§ 12.  Felonies and misdemeanors.

Chapter 2.  The Act Title 1.  Grounds of Punishability

§ 13.  Commission by omission.
§ 14.  Acting for another.
§ 15.  Intentional and negligent conduct.
§ 16.  Mistake regarding circumstances of the act.
§ 17.  Mistake regarding prohibition.
§ 18.  Heavier punishment for special effects of an act.
§ 19.  Guilt incapacity of the child.
§ 20.  Guilt incapacity because of mental disorder.
§ 21.  Diminished guilt capacity.

Title 2.  Attempt

§ 22.  Definition of the term.
§ 23.  Punishability of the attempt.
§ 24.  Withdrawal.

Title 3.  Actorship and Participation

§ 25.  Actorship.
§ 26.  Instigation.
§ 27.  Aid.
§ 28.  Special personal characteristics.
§ 29.  Independent punishability of each party.
§ 30.  Attempted participation.
§ 31.  Withdrawal from attempted participation.

Title 4.  Emergency Defense and State of Emergency

§ 32.  Emergency defense.
§ 33.  Exceeding the emergency defense.
§ 34.  State of emergency as justification.
§ 35.  State of emergency as excuse.

Title 5.  Freedom from Punishment for Parliamentary Statements and Reports

§ 36.  Parliamentary statements.
§ 37.  Parliamentary reports.