A person who, for the purpose of self-help, removes, destroys or damages a thing, or a person who, for the purpose of self-help, arrests an obliged person who is suspected of flight, or overcomes the resistance to an act of an obliged person who has a duty to tolerate that act, is not acting unlawfully if help cannot be obtained from the authorities in good time and there is the danger, if no immediate intervention takes place, that the realisation of the claim will be frustrated or become considerably more difficult.
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Self-help
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