Justifiable Defense as a Civil Right

The current article focuses on the matter of the Civil Law characteristics of justifiable defense, the latter being mainly the subject of Criminal Law researches. Its regulatory framework, which is placed in art. 12 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Bulgaria, provides its principal features which are discussed from the point of view of Civil Law, in order to find out whether justifiable defense is a civil right. Then, established classifications of the types of civil rights are used so that a complete legal specificity of justifiable defense for the purposes of Civil Law can be achieved.