Putative emergency
Putativnotstand (from Latin putare , "believe", "mean") is a term from criminal law , more precisely from general criminal law.
Essentially, the putative emergency is comparable to the putative self-defense , in which the perpetrator imagines that he is in a self-defense situation and that he is allowed to defend himself according to the self-defense law.
In the case of a putative emergency, however, the perpetrator imagines an emergency situation and thinks he can defend himself according to emergency law. In reality, however, there is no real emergency.
The legal evaluation is to be equated with that of the putative self-defense.
