Provocation defined

The following matters may amount to extreme provocation to one person to cause the death of another person, namely– (a) an unlawful assault or battery committed upon the accused person by the other person, either in an unlawful fight or otherwise, which is of such a kind either in respect of its violence or by reason of words, gestures or other circumstances of insult or aggravation, as to be likely to deprive a person, being of ordinary character, and being in the circumstances in which the accused person was, of the power of self-control; (b) the assumption by the other person, at the commencement of an unlawful fight, of an attitude manifesting an intention of instantly attacking the accused person with deadly or dangerous means or in a deadly manner; (c) an act of adultery committed with or by the wife or husband of the accused person, or the of carnal 92 committed upon the accused person’s wife or (d) a violent assault or battery, or any sexual offence, committed upon the accused person’s wife, husband, child or parent, or upon any other person in the care or charge of the accused person; (e) anything said to the accused person by the other person or by a third person which were grave enough to make a reasonable man to lose his self-control. When