Exceptions from general provisions

The general provisions of Title II with respect to causing an event are, in their application to the matters of this Title, subject to the following explanations and modifications, namely– (a) A person shall not be deemed to have caused harm to another person by omitting to supply him with the necessaries of health and life unless it be proved against him that the other person, by reason of his age or physical or mental state, or by reason of control by the accused person, could not by reasonable exertion have avoided the harm. 83 (b) Disease or disorder which a person suffers as the inward effect of his grief, terror or other emotion, shall not be deemed to be harm caused by another person, although such grief, terror or emotion, has been caused by him, whether with intent to cause harm or otherwise. (c) Harm which a person suffers by execution of a sentence of a court in consequence of a prosecution instituted, prosecuted or procured, or of evidence given or procured to be given, by another person, whether in good faith or not, shall not be deemed to have been caused by that other person. (d) Except as in this section expressly provided, a person shall not be excused from liability to punishment for causing harm to another person or be acquitted of having caused harm to another person, on the ground that the other person by his own trespass, negligence, act or omission, contributed to the causing of the harm.