CODE OF CANON LAW 1917
Canon 2205. Vis physica quae omnem adimit agendi facultatem, delictum prorsus excludit.§2. Metus quoque gravis, etiam relative tantum, necessitas, imo et grave incommodum, plerumque delictum, si agatur de legibus mere ecclesiasticis, penitus tollunt.§3. Si vero actus sit intrinsece malus aut vergat in contemptum fidei vel ecclesiasticae auctoritatis vel in animarum damnum, causae, de quibus in §2, delicti imputabilitatem minuunt quidem, sed non auferunt.§4. Causa legitimae tutelae contra iniustum aggressorem, si debitum servetur moderamen, delictum omnino aufert; secus imputabilitatem tantummodo minuit, sicut etiam causa provocationis.
Canon 2205. Physical force which takes away all the ability to act, completely excludes the crime. §2. They completely remove the serious fear, even relatively only, of necessity, nay, of a serious inconvenience, usually a crime, if it is a question of purely ecclesiastical laws. §3. But if the act is intrinsically evil or leads to contempt of faith or ecclesiastical authority or to the loss of souls, the causes mentioned in §2 indeed reduce the imputability of the offense, but they do not remove it. L