- adequate provocation
- An adequate provocation to cause a sudden transport of passion that may suspend the exercise of judgment and exclude premeditation and a previously formed design is one that is calculated to excite such anger as might obscure the reason or dominate the volition of an ordinary reasonable man.See adequate cause
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.
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