CRIMINAL LAW

BOOK ONE

1. Definition of Criminal law

2. Enforceability of Penal laws
a. Within the Philippine Territory
b. Exception
3. Felonies and Circumstances which affect criminal Liability
a. Mala in se vs. Mala Prohibita
b. Intent vs. Motive
c. Criminal Liability
i. Proximate Cause
ii. Abberatio Ictus
iii. Error in Personae
iv. Praeter Intentionem
4. Impossible Crime
a. Inherent impossibility
b. Legal impossibility
c. Physical or Factual Impossibility
5. Acts which should be repressed but which are not covered by law (Art. 5 Par. 1)
a. Basis : Legal maxim “nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege”, that is, there is no crime when
there is no law that punishes the act.
6. Stages of Execution
a. Consummated
b. Frustrated
c. Attempted
7. Definition of Felony
a. Culpa
b. Dolo
8. Classification of Felonies
a. Grave
b. Less Grave
c. Light
9. Conspiracy and Proposal to Commit Felony
a. Punishable only when the law provides
10. Circumstances affecting criminal liability
a. Justifying Circumstance

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 i. Self-defense
ii. Defense of Relatives
iii. Defense of Stranger
iv. Avoidance of Greater Evil or injury
v. Fulfillment of Duty or lawful exercise of right or office
vi. Obedience to an order issued for some lawful purpose
b. Exempting Circumstance
i. Imbecility/ Insanity
ii. Minority
iii. Accident
iv. Compulsion of Irresistible Force
v. Impulse of uncontrollable fear
vi. Insuperable or lawful cause
c. Mitigating Circumstance
i. Incomplete Justification and Exemption
ii. Under 18 or Over 70 years of age
iii. No intention to commit so grave a wrong
iv. Sufficient Provocation or threat
v. Immediate vindication of a grave offense
vi. Passion or obfuscation
vii. Voluntary Surrender
viii. Voluntary Plea of Guilt
ix. Plea to a lower offense
x. Physical Defect
xi. Illness
xii. Analogous Circumstances
d. Aggravating Circumstance
i. Taking advantage of Public office
ii. In contempt of or with Insult to Public Authorities
iii. With insult or lack of regard due to offended party by reason of Rank, age or sex
iv. Abuse of Confidence and obvious ungratefulness
v. Crime in Palace or in the Presence of the Chief Executive
vi. Night time; uninhabited place; with a Band
vii. On occasion of a Calamity
viii. Aid of Armed Men or Means to ensure impunity
ix. Recidivism
x. Reiteration or Habituality
xi. Price, Reward or Promise
xii. Inundation, fire, Poison

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 xiii. Evident Premeditation
xiv. Craft, Fraud or Disguise
xv. Superior Strength or Means to weaken the Defense
xvi. Treachery
xvii. Ignominy
xviii. Unlawful Entry
xix. Breaking wall, floor, roof
xx. In aid of persons under 15 or by Motor Vehicle
xxi. Cruelty
e. Alternative Circumstance - must be taken into consideration as aggravating or mitigating
according to the nature and effects of the crime and other conditions attending its
commission.
i. Relationship
ii. Intoxication
iii. Degree of instruction and education of the offender
11. Persons Criminally Liable for Felonies
a. For Grave and Less Grave:
i. Principals
ii. Accomplices
iii. Accessories
b. For Light Felonies:
i. Principals
ii. Accomplices
12. Penalties
a. Definition
b. Theories on Justifying penalty:
i. Prevention
ii. Self-defense
iii. Reformation
iv. Exemplarity
v. Justice
13. Effect of Pardon by the offended Party
14. Classification of Penalties
a. As to their severity
i. Capital
ii. Afflictive
iii. Correctional
iv. Light
b. As to Nature
i. Principal
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 - Divisible
- Indivisible
ii. Accessory
c. As to Subject Matter
i. Corporal (Death)
ii. Deprivation of Freedom
- Reclusion Perpetua and Temporal
- Prision mayor and correccional
- Arresto mayor and menor
iii. Restriction of Freedom
- Destierro
iv. Deprivation of Rights
- Disqualification and Suspension
v. Pecuniary
- Fine
d. Duration and Effects of Penalties (Arts. 27 to 45)
e. Application of Penalties
f. Complex Crimes
i. Under Art. 48 (Ordinary Complex Crime)
- Compound Crimes
- Complex Crime proper
ii. Special Complex Crime or Composite Crime
iii. Continued Crime / Continuing Crime
g. Imposition of Penalties and Fines
h. Successive Service of Sentence
i. Three-fold Rule (3:4:40)
- Can only be applied if the convict if the convict is to serve four (4) or more
sentences successively.
- Under this rule, when a convict is to serve successive penalties, he will not
actually serve the penalties imposed by law. Instead, the most severe of the
penalties imposed on him shall be multiplied by three and the period will be
the only term of the penalty to be served by him. However, in no case should
the penalty exceed 40 years.
j. Absorption System
k. Indeterminate Sentence Law
l. Probation Law
m. Execution and Service of Penalties
n. Extinction of Criminal Liability
i. Total

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o. Prescription of Crimes
p. Prescription of Offenses
q. Prescription of penalty
r. Civil Liability

BOOK TWO

1. Crime against National Security and the Law of Nations

a. Treason
b. Conspiracy and proposal to commit treason
c. Misprision of treason
d. Espionage
e. Inciting to war or giving motive for reprisals
f. Violation of neutrality
g. Correspondence with hostile country
h. Flight to enemy’s country
i. Piracy in general and mutiny on the high seas or in Philippines waters
j. Qualified Piracy
2. Crime against the Fundamental Law of the State
a. Arbitrary detention
b. Delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial authorities
c. Delaying Release
d. Expulsion
e. Violation of Domicile
f. Search warrants maliciously obtained, and abuse in the service of those legally obtained
g. Searching domicile without witnesses
h. Prohibition, interruption, and dissolution of peaceful meetings
i. Interruption of religious worship
j. Offending the religious feelings
3. Crime against Public Order
a. Rebellion or insurrection
b. Coup d’ etat
c. Penalty for rebellion, insurrection or coup d’ etat
d. Conspiracy to commit rebellion, insurrection, or coup d’etat
e. Disloyalty of public officers or employees
f. Inciting to rebellion or insurrection
g. Sedition
h. Penalty for Sedition

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 i. Conspiracy to Commit Sedition
j. Inciting to Sedition
k. Acts tending to prevent the meeting of the Assembly & similar bodies
l. Disturbance of proceedings
m. Violation of parliamentary immunity
n. Illegal Possession of Firearms
o. Illegal Assemblies
p. Illegal Associations
q. Direct Assaults
r. Indirect Assaults
s. Disobedience to summons
t. Resistance & disobedience to a person in authority or his agents
u. Persons in authority & agents of persons in authority
v. Tumults & other disturbances of public order
w. Unlawful use of means of publication & unlawful utterances
x. Alarms & scandals
y. Delivering prisoners from jail
z. Evasion of service of sentence
aa. Evasion of service of sentence on the occasion of disorders
bb. Violation of conditional pardon
cc. Quasi-recidivism
4. Crimes against Public Interest
a. Counterfeiting the great seal of the government, forging the seal of the
b. government; signature/stamp of Chief Executive
c. Using forged signature or counterfeit seal or stamp
d. Making and importing and uttering false coins
e. Mutilation of coins- importation & utterance of mutilated coins
f. Selling of false or mutilated coin
g. Forging, importing, uttering treasury, bank notes, or
h. other documents payable to bearer
i. Counterfeiting, importing & uttering instruments not payable to bearer
j. Illegal possession and use of false treasury, bank notes, and other instruments of credit
k. Forgery
l. Falsification of legislative documents
m. Falsification by public officer, employee, notary or ecclesiastical minister
n. Galeos v. People/Ong v. People, GR 174730-37 & 174845-52
o. Falsification by private individual & use of falsified documents
p. Falsification & use of wireless, cable, telegraph, & telephone messages
q. Falsification of medical certificates, certificates of merit or service
r. Using false certificates
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 s. Manufacturing & possession of instruments or implements for falsification
t. Usurpation of authority or official functions
u. Using fictitious names and concealing true name
v. Illegal use of uniforms & insignia
w. False testimony against a defendant
x. False testimony favorable to the defendant
y. False testimony in civil cases
z. False testimony in other cases and perjury in solemn affirmation
aa. Offering false testimony in evidence
bb. Machinations in public auctions
cc. Monopolies & combinations in restraint of trade
5. Crimes Relative to Opium and other Prohibited Drugs
a. Illegal sale/possession/use of dangerous drugs: elements
b. Chain of Custody Rule
c. Chain of Custody Rule: Exception: Presumption of Regularity
d. Chain of Custody Rule: Exception: Preservation of Integrity and Evidentiary
e. Value of the Confiscated Items
f. Chain of Custody Rule: Exception: Agency Coordination
g. Circumstance of Conspiracy
h. Constructive Possession
i. Civil liability
6. Crimes against Public Morals
a. Acts punishable in gambling (Art. 195)
b. Importation, sale, possession of lottery tickets or advertisements
c. Betting in sports contests
d. Illegal betting on horse races
e. Illegal cockfighting
f. Grave scandal
g. Immoral doctrines, obscene publications & exhibitions & indecent shows
h. Vagrants and prostitutes
7. Crimes committed by Public Officers
a. Who are public officers
b. Knowingly render unjust judgment
c. Judgment rendered through negligence
d. Unjust interlocutory order
e. Malicious delay in the administration of justice
f. Prosecution of offenses; negligence & tolerance
g. Betrayal of trust by attorney-revelation of secrets
h. Direct Bribery
i. Indirect bribery
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k. Corruption of public officials
l. Graft and corruption
m. Plunder
n. Frauds against the public treasury
o. Other frauds
p. Prohibited transactions
q. Possession of prohibited interest by a public officer
r. Malversation of public funds
s. Technical Malversation
t. Failure of accountable officer to render accounts
u. Failure of accountable officer to render account before leaving the country
v. Illegal use of public funds or property
w. Failure to make delivery of public funds or property
x. Officers included in the preceding provisions
y. Conniving with or consenting to evasion
z. Evasion through negligence
aa. Escape of prisoner under the custody of a person not a public officer
bb. Removal, concealment, or destruction of documents Officer breaking seal
cc. Opening of closed documents
dd. Revelation of secrets by an officer
ee. Public officer revealing secrets of private individual
ff. Open disobedience
gg. Disobedience to order of superior officer, when said order was suspended by inferior
officer
hh.Refusal of assistance
ii. Refusal to discharge elective office
jj. Maltreatment of prisoners
kk. Anticipation of duties of a public office
ll. Prolonging performance of duties and powers
mm. Abandonment of office or position
nn. Usurpation of legislative powers
oo.Usurpation of executive functions
pp. Usurpation of judicial functions
qq. Disobeying request for disqualification
rr. Orders or requests by executive officers to any judicial authority
ss. Unlawful appointments
tt. Abuses against chastity
8. Crimes against Persons
a. Parricide
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 b. Death or Physical Injuries inflicted under exceptional circumstances
c. Murder
d. Homicide
e. Penalty for frustrated parricide, murder or homicide
f. Death caused in a tumultuous affray
g. Physical Injuries inflicted in a tumultuous affray
h. Giving assistance to suicide
i. Discharge of firearms
j. Infanticide
k. Intentional abortion
l. Unintentional abortion
m. Abortion practiced by the woman herself or by her parents
n. Abortion practiced by a physician or midwife and dispensing of abortives
o. Responsibility of participants in a duel
p. Challenging to a duel
q. Mutilation
r. Serious Physical Injuries
s. Administering injurious substances or beverages
t. Less physical injuries
u. Slight physical injuries and maltreatments
v. Rape, when and how committed
w. Penalties
x. Effect of pardon
y. Presumptions
9. Crime against Personal Liberty and Security
a. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention
b. Slight illegal detention
c. Unlawful arrest
d. Kidnapping and failure to return a minor
e. Inducing a minor to abandon his home
f. Slavery
g. Exploitation of Child labor
h. Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debt
i. Abandonment of persons in danger and abandonment of one’s own victim
j. Abandoning a minor
k. Abandonment of minor by person entrusted with his custody; indifference of parents
l. Exploitation of minors
m. Additional penalties for other offenses
n. Qualified trespass to dwelling
o. Other forms of trespass
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 p. Grave threats
q. Light threats
r. Bond for good behavior
s. Other light threats
t. Grave coercions
u. Light coercions
v. Other similar coercions
w. Formation, maintenance, and prohibition of combination of capital or labor through violence
or threats
x. Discovering secrets through seizure of correspondence
y. Revealing secrets with abuse of office
z. Revelation of industrial secrets
10. Crimes against Property
a. Who are guilty of robbery
b. Robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons- penalties
c. Robbery with physical injuries, committed in an uninhabited place and by a band, or with the
use of firearm on a street, road or alley
d. Definition of a band and penalty incurred by the members thereof
e. Attempted and frustrated robbery committed under certain circumstances
f. Execution of deeds by means of violence or intimidation
g. Robbery in an uninhabited place or in a private building
h. Robbery of cereals, fruits, or firewood in an uninhabited place or private building
i. Possession of picklock or similar tools
j. False keys
k. Who are brigands
l. Aiding and abetting a band of brigands
m. Who are liable for theft
n. Penalties
o. Qualified theft
p. Theft of the property of the national library and national museum
q. Occupation of real property or usurpation of real rights in property
r. Altering boundaries or landmarks
s. Fraudulent insolvency
t. Swindling (Estafa)
u. Other forms of swindling
v. Swindling a minor
w. Other deceits
x. Removal, sale or pledge of mortgaged property
y. Who are liable for malicious mischief
z. Special cases of malicious mischief
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 aa. Other mischiefs
bb. Damage and obstruction to means of communication
cc. Destroying or damaging statues, public monuments or paintings
dd. Persons exempt from criminal liability
11. Crimes against Chastity
a. Acts of lasciviousness
b. Qualified seduction
c. Simple seduction
d. Acts of lasciviousness with the consent of the offended party
e. Corruption of minors
f. White slave trade
g. Force abduction
h. Consented abduction
i. Prosecution of the crimes of adultery, concubinage, seduction, abduction, rape and acts of
lasciviousness
j. Civil liability of persons guilty of crimes against chastity
k. Liability of ascendants, guardians, teachers, or other persons entrusted with the custody of
the offended party
12. Crimes against the civil status of Persons
a. Simulation births, substitution of one child for another, and concealment or abandonment
of a legitimate child
b. Usurpation of civil status
c. Bigamy
d. Illegal marriage
e. Premature marriage
f. Performance of illegal marriage ceremony
13. Crimes against Honor
a. Definition of libel
b. Requirement for publicity
c. Libel by means of writings or similar means
d. Threatening to publish and offer to prevent such publication for a compensation
e. Prohibited publication of acts referred to in the course of official proceedings
f. Slander
g. Slander by deed
h. Persons responsible
i. Proof of the truth
j. Libelous remarks
k. Incriminating innocent persons
l. Intriguing against honor
m. Imprudence and negligence
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SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

1. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10175 - AN ACT DEFINING CYBERCRIME, PROVIDING FOR THE PREVENTION,
INVESTIGATION, SUPPRESSION AND THE
2. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10158 - AN ACT DECRIMINALIZING VAGRANCY, AMENDING FOR THIS
PURPOSE ARTICLE 202 OF ACT NO. 3815, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED
PENAL CODE
3. REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9995 - AN ACT DEFINING AND PENALIZING THE CRIME OF PHOTO AND
VIDEO VOYEURISM, PRESCRIBING PENALTIES THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
4. Republic Act No. 9775 - Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009
5. Republic Act No. 9516 - An Act Further Amending the Provisions of Presidential Decree No. 1866,
As Amended, Entitled "Codifying the Laws on Illegal/Unlawful Possession, Manufacture, Dealing in,
Acquisition or Disposition of Firearms, Ammunition or Explosives Or Instruments Used in the
Manufacture of Firearms, Ammunition or Explosives, and Imposing Stiffer Penalties for Certain
Violations thereof, and for Relevant Purposes"
6. Republic Act No. 9439 [H. No. 68] - An Act Prohibiting the Detention of Patients in Hospitals and
Medical Clinics on Grounds of Nonpayment of Hospital Bills or Medlcal Expenses
7. Republic Act No. 9346 - An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of Death Penalty in the Philippines.
8. Republic Act No. 9344 - An Act Establishing a Comprehensive Juvenile Justice and Welfare System,
Creating the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Council under the Department of Justice, Appropriating
Funds therefor and for other Purposes.
9. Republic Act No. 9262 - An Act Defining Violence Against Women And Their Children, Providing
For Protective Measures For Victims, Prescribing Penalties Therefore, And For Other Purposes.
10. Republic Act No. 9208 - An Act To Institute Policies to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons Especially
Women and Children, Establishing the Necessary Institutional Mechanisms for the Protection and
Support of Trafficked Persons, Providing Penalties for Its Violations, and for other Purposes.
11. Republic Act No. 9194 - An Act Amending Republic Act No. 9160, Otherwise Known as the "Anti-
Money Laundering Law of 2001"
12. Republic Act No. 9165 - Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002
13. Republic Act No. 9160 - The Rules and Regulations Implementing the Anti-Money Laundering Act
of 2001
14. Republic Act No. 8505 - Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998
15. Republic Act No. 8368 - The Anti-Squatting Law Repeal Act of 1997
16. Republic Act No. 8353 - Anti-Rape Law
17. Republic Act No. 8294 - An Act Amending the Provisions of P. D. No. 1866, Entitled "Codifying the
Laws on Illegal/Unlawful Possession, Manufacture, Dealing In, Acquisition or Dispostion of Firearms,
Ammunition or Explosives or Instruments Used in the Manufacture of Firearms, Ammunition or
Explosives, and Imposing Stiffer Penalties for Certain Violations Thereof, and for Relevant Purposes"

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18. Republic Act No. 8177 - An Act Designating Death by Lethal Injection as the Method of Carrying
Out Capital Punishment, Amending for the Purpose Article 81 of the Revised Penal Code, As
Amended by Section 24 of Republic Act No. 7659
19. Republic Act No. 8049 - Anti-Hazing Law
20. Republic Act No. 7890 - An Act Amendig Article 286, Section Three, Chapter Two, Title Nine of Act
No. 3815, As Amended, Otherwise Known as the Revised Penal Code
21. Republic Act No. 7832 - Anti-Electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of
1994
22. Republic Act No. 7659 - Death Penalty Law
23. Republic Act No. 7438 - An Act Defining Certain Rights of Person Arrested, Detained or Under
Custodial Investigation as well as the Duties of the Arresting, Detaining and Investigating Officers,
and Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof
24. Republic Act No. 7636 - An Act Repealing Republic Act Numbered One Thousand Seven Hundred,
As Amended, Otherwise Known as the Anti-Subversion Act.
25. Republic Act No. 7309 - An Act Creating a Board of Claims Under the Department of Justice for
Victims of Unjust Imprisonment or Detention and Victims of Violent Crimes and for Other Purposes
26. Republic Act No. 6981 - Witness Protection, Security and Benefit Act
27. Republic Act No. 6968 - An Act Punishing the Crime of Coup d' Etat by Amending Articles 134,
135 and 136 of Chapter One, Title Three of Act Numbered Thirty-Eight Hundred and Fifteen,
Otherwise Known as the Revised Penal Code, and for Other Purposes.
28. Republic Act No. 6425 - The Dangerous Drugs Act of 1972
29. Republic Act No. 1700 - An Act to Outlaw the Communist Party of the Philippines and Similar
Associations, Penalizing Membership Therein, and for Other Purposes. (Repealed by Republic Act
No. 7636)
30. Presidential Decree No. 2018 - Further Amending Articles 38 and 39 of the Labor Code by Making
Illegal Recruitment a Crime of Economic Sabotage and Punishable With Life Imprisonment.
31. Presidential Decree No. 1996 - Further Amending Presidential Decree No. 1834, As
Amended.(Repealed by Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)
32. Presidential Decree No. 1990 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 968, Otherwise Known as the
Probation Law of 1976.
33. Presidential Decree No. 1975 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 1835 (Repealed by Executive
Order No. 167, Series of 1987
34. Presidential Decree No. 1974 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 1834 (Repealed by Executive
Order No. 187, Series of 1987)
35. Presidential Decree No. 1875 - Repealing Presidential Decree No. 1737, Otherwise Known as an
Act Providing for the Preservation of Public Order and the Protection of Individual Rights and
Liberties During Periods of Emergency and Exercise of Extra-Ordinary Executive Powers.

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36. Presidential Decree No. 1835 - Anti-Subversion Law of 1981 Codifying the Various Laws on Anti-
Subversion and Increasing the Penalties for Membership in Subversive Organizations. (Repealed by
Executive Order No. 167, Series of 1987)
37. Presidential Decree No. 1834 - Increasing the Penalties for the Crime of Rebellion, Sedition, and
Related Crimes, and Amending for This Purpose Articles 135, 136, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 146 and
147 of th Revised Penal Code and Adding Section 142-B Thereto. (Repealed by Executive Order No.
187, Series of 1987
38. Presidential Decree No. 1829 - Penalizing Obstruction of Apprehension and Prosecution of
Criminal Offenders.
39. Presidential Decree No. 1745 - Providing for the Disposition of Cases Involving Simple Illegal
Possession of Firearm, Ammunition, or Explosive, the Surrender of Such Contraband Under Certain
Guarantees and Conditions, and for Other Purposes.
40. Presidential Decree No. 1744 - Amending Article Three Hundred and Twenty of the Revised Penal
Code Provisions on Arson.
41. Presidential Decree No. 1743 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 1110-A Penalizing Any Attempt
on, or Conspiracy Against, the Life of the Chief Executive of the Republic of the Philippines, Any
Member of His Cabinet or Their Families.
42. Presidential Decree No. 1737 - An Act Providing for the Preservation of Public Order and the
Protection of Individual Rights and Liberties During Periods of Emergency and Exercise of
Extraordinary Executive Powers.
43. Presidential Decree No. 1736 - Amending Presidential Decree Numbered Eight Hundred Eighty-
Five, Otherwise Known as the Revised Anti-Subversion Law, As Amended.
44. Presidential Decree No. 1735 Imposing Additional Penalties for Rebellion, Insurrection, Sedition
and Subversion Committed Within or Outside Philippine Territory. Repealed by Executive Order No.
187, Series of 1987)
45. Presidential Decree No. 970 - Amending Articles 138 and 142 of the Revised Penal Code and for
Other Purposes. (Repealed by Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)
46. Presidential Decree No. 969 - Amending Certain Provisions of Presidential Decree No. 960 Which
Amended Article 201 of the Revised Penal Code and for Other Purposes.)
47. Presidential Decree No. 968 - The Probation Law of 1976 Establishing a Probation System,
Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes.
48. Presidential Decree No. 942 - Amending the Provisions of the Revised Penal Code on Crimes
Against Public Order. (Repealed by Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987)
49. Presidential Decree No. 885 - Revised Anti-Subversion Law Outlawing Subversive Organizations,
Penalizing Membership Therein and for Other Purposes.
50. Presidential Decree No. 38 - Amending Articles 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 142, 177, 178 and 179 of
the Revised Penal Code. (Repealed by Executive Order No. 187, Series of 1987))

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51. Batas Pambansa Bilang 873 - An Act Amending Article 152 of the Revised Penal Code by
Considering Lawyers as Persons in Authority When in the Performance of Their Duties or on the
Occasion Thereof.
52. Batas Pambansa Bilang 871 - An Act Amending Articles Two Hundred Ten and Two Hundred
Eleven of Act Numbered Thirty-Eight and Fifteen, Otherwise Known as the Revised Penal Code, As
Amended, to Increase the Penalty for the Offense of Bribery.
53. Batas Pambansa Bilang 186 - An Act Increasing the Penalty for White Slave Trade, Amending for
the Purpose Article 341 of the Revised Penal Code.
54. Batas Pambansa Bilang 179 - An Act Further Amending Certain Sections of Republic Act
Numbered Sixty-Four Hundred and Twenty-Five, Otherwise Known as the Dangerous Drugs Act of
1972, Appropriating Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes.
55. Batas Pambansa Bilang 92 - An Act Modifying the Definition of the Crime of Corruption of Minors
and Increasing the Penalty Therefor, Amending for the Purpose Article Three Hundred Forty of the
Revised Penal Code.
56. Batas Pambansa Bilang 85 - An Act Authorizing the Release of Any Offender or Accused Who Has
Undergone Preventive Imprisonment Equal to or More Than the Possible Maximum Imprisonment
to Which He May be Sentenced by Amending the Revised Penal Code.
57. Batas Pambansa Bilang 76 - An Act Amending Presidential Decree Numbered Nine Hundred Sixty-
Eight, as Amended, Otherwise Known as the Probation Law of Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Six,
So as to Expand Its Coverage.
58. Batas Pambansa Bilang 71 - An Act Further Amending Article 310 of the Revised Penal Code.
59. Batas Pambansa Bilang 33 - An Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibited Acts Inimical to
the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products,
Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for Other Purposes.
60. Batas Pambansa Bilang 31 - An Act Amending Presidential Decree Numbered Eight Hundred
Eighty-Five, Otherwise Known as the Revised Anti-Subversion Law.
61. Batas Pambansa Bilang 22 - Bouncing Check Law
62. Batas Pambansa Bilang 6 - An Act Reducing the Penalty for Illegal Possession of Bladed, Pointed
or Blunt Weapons, and for Other Purposes, Amending for the Purpose Presidential Decree
Numbered Nine.
63. Commonwealth Act No. 578 - An Act to Amend Article One Hundred Fifty-Two of the Revised
Penal Code, so as to Include Teachers, Professors, and Persons Charged With the Supervision of
Public or Duly Recognized Private Schools, Colleges, and Universities, Within the Term "Persons in
Authority" .
64. Act No. 4103 - The Indeterminate Sentence Law An Act to Provide for an Indeterminate Sentence
and Parole for All Persons Convicted of Certain Crimes by the Courts of the Philippine Islands; to
Create a Board of Indeterminate Sentence and to Provide Funds Therefor; And for Other Purposes.

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