Provocation
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The act of inciting another to do a particular deed. Such conduct or actions on the part of one person towards another as tend to arouse rage, resentment, or fury in the latter against the former, and thereby cause him to do some illegal act against or in relation to the person offering the provocation.
See State v. Byrd, 52 S. C. 480, 30 S. E. 482; Ruble v. Pcople, 67 III. App. 438.