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• A commenced or imminent criminal attack on person or property
• A person has gained or trying to gain unauthorized access to a room, house, yard or ship
• A person that refuses to leave a domicile after being told to

• the nature of the attack that caused the peril
• the significance of that which the attack was aimed at (such as a human life)
• Other significant circumstances

• A commenced or imminent criminal attack on person or property
• A person has gained or trying to gain unauthorized access to a room, house, yard or ship
• A person refuses to leave a domicile after being told to
• If — when caught red-handed — a person uses violence or threats of violence to resist stolen property from being retaken

• the nature of the attack that caused the peril
• the significance of that which the attack was aimed at (such as a human life)
• other significant circumstances

• A commenced or imminent criminal attack on person or property
• A person has gained or trying to gain access to a room, house, yard or ship
• A person that refuses to leave a domicile after being told to

• A commenced or imminent criminal attack on person or property
• A person has gained or trying to gain unauthorized access to a room, house, yard or ship
• A person that refuses to leave a domicile after being told to

Context, and how to just what a fictional character is saying

Unless the protagonist in question had set up lethal traps; unless they had foreknowledge of an attack; unless they invited the assailant in with the intent to kill them; unless they fend off the attack and gets themselves into a perfectly safe situation and then proceeds to beat the assailant to death, then it cannot become murder.

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Unless the protagonist in question had set up lethal traps; unless they had foreknowledge of an attack; unless they invited the assailant in with the intent to kill them; unless they fend off the attack and gets themselves into a perfectly safe situation and then proceeds to beat the assailant to death; and unless all of this can be proved, then it cannot become murder.