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  2. Revised Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The Revised Penal Code supplanted the 1870 Spanish Código Penal, which was in force in the Philippines (then an overseas province of the Spanish Empire up to 1898) from 1886 to 1930, after an allegedly uneven implementation in 1877.

  3. Philippine legal codes - Wikipedia

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    The Revised Penal Code contains the general penal laws of the Philippines and is one of the major sources of criminal laws in the Philippines. It was enacted in 1930 and has undergone several amendments. Presidential Decree No. 856: Sanitation Code

  4. Philippine criminal law - Wikipedia

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    Republic Act No. 386, the Civil Code of the Philippines (1949). Act No. 3815, the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines (1930). The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines. Luis B. Reyes, The Revised Penal Code: Criminal Law 20 (1998, 14th ed.). Antonio L. Gregorio, Fundamentals of Criminal Law Review 50-51 (1997).

  5. List of Philippine legal terms - Wikipedia

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    See Revised Penal Code § Penalties. prisión mayor: major imprisonment Spanish See Revised Penal Code § Penalties. quasi-judicial agency: N/A: English An agency of the executive branch that exercises some judicial functions and before which a minimum of due process is required. [16] Cf. administrative case. quo warranto: by what authority Latin

  6. List of Philippine laws - Wikipedia

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    The Revised Penal Code: CA 1 December 21, 1935 The National Defense Act of 1935, which created the Armed Forces of the Philippines. RA 386 August 30, 1950 Civil Code of the Philippines: RA 1425: June 12, 1956 The Rizal Act, which mandates the inclusion of courses on José Rizal in the curricula of all educational institutions in the Philippines ...

  7. Rule of lenity - Wikipedia

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    The Florida statute states that the code "shall be strictly construed; when the language is susceptible of differing constructions, it shall be construed most favorably to the accused." [ 22 ] [ 12 ] The Ohio law states simply that offenses and penalties shall be "strictly construed against the state and liberally construed in favor of the ...

  8. Penal labour - Wikipedia

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    Penal labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour [1] that prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. [2] Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included involuntary servitude, penal servitude, and imprisonment with hard labour.

  9. Mischief rule - Wikipedia

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    The mischief rule [1] is one of three rules of statutory interpretation traditionally applied by English courts, [2] the other two being the "plain meaning rule" (also known as the "literal rule") and the "golden rule". It is used to determine the exact scope of the "mischief" that the statute in question has set out to remedy, and to guide the ...