Lawful resistance to the commission of a public offense may be made:
1. By the party about to be injured;
2. By other parties.
Cal. Penal Code § 692
Of Lawful Resistance
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 185 Cal. App. 2d 776 - Walters v. American Insurance (1960)
Most recently applied in 176 Cal. App. 4th 946 - People v. Adams (August 2009)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.