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PRELIMINARY TITLE
Article 1. Date of Effectiveness
January 1, 1932
3. Should be liable for acts connected with the introduction into these
Islands of the obligations and securities mentioned in the preceding
number;
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5. Should commit any of the crimes against national security and the law
of nations, defined in Title One of Book Two of RPC.
Note: Paragraphs 1-5 is not an exemption to the territoriality principle, it is
EXTRATERRITORIALITY.
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The crimes punishable in the Philippines under Art. 2 are cognizable by the RTC
in which the charge is first filed.
Mali and Wildenhus vs. Keeper of the Common Jail 120 U.S. 1, cited in People
vs. Wong Cheng, 46 Phil. 729, 731-732
It may not be easy at all times to determine to which of two jurisdictions a
particular act of disorder belongs. Much will undoubtedly depend on the attending
circumstances of the particular case, but all must concede that felonious homicide is
a subject for the local jurisdiction, and that if the proper authorities are proceeding
with the case in the regular way, the consul has no right to interfere to prevent it.
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