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Cards (432)

  • Title: Revised Penal Code of the Philippines
  • Book One: Articles 1 - 113
  • Book Two: Articles 114 - 367
  • The Anti-Bouncing Check Law: Batas Pambansa Bilang 22
  • Act No. 3815: An Act revising the Penal Code and other Penal Laws (December 8, 1930)
  • Crimes Against National Security and the Law of Nations:
  • Treason and Espionage
  • Treason: Levying war against the Government of the Philippine Islands or adhering to their enemies, aiding or comforting them, punishable by reclusion temporal to death and a fine not exceeding P20,000 pesos
  • Conspiracy or proposal to commit treason punishable by prision mayor and a fine not exceeding P10,000 pesos
  • Misprision of treason: Concealing knowledge of any conspiracy against the Government punishable as an accessory to the crime of treason
  • Espionage: Unauthorized entry to obtain confidential information or disclosure of such information to a foreign nation, punishable by prision correccional
  • Provoking War and Disloyalty in Case of War:
  • Inciting to war or giving motives for reprisals punishable by reclusion temporal for public officers and prision mayor for private individuals
  • Violation of Neutrality punishable by prision correccional
  • Correspondence with hostile country punishable based on the nature of correspondence, aiding the enemy leads to reclusion temporal to death
  • Flight to enemy country punishable by arresto mayor
  • Piracy and Mutiny on the High Seas:
  • Piracy in general and mutiny on the high seas punishable by reclusion temporal
  • Qualified piracy under specific circumstances punishable by reclusion temporal to death
  • Arbitrary detention based on duration and legal grounds
  • Arbitrary Detention or Expulsion, Violation of Dwelling, Prohibition, Interruption, and Dissolution of Peaceful Meetings, and Crimes Against Religious Worship:
  • Delay in the delivery of detained persons to judicial authorities
  • Delaying release of prisoners
  • Expulsion without legal authority punishable by prision correccional
  • Violation of domicile punishable by prision correccional
  • Search warrants maliciously obtained and abuse in service punishable by arresto mayor to prision correccional and a fine
  • Prohibition, interruption, and dissolution of peaceful meetings punishable by prision correccional
  • Crimes against religious worship: Interruption and offending religious feelings punishable by prision correccional
  • Rebellion, Sedition, and Disloyalty:
  • Rebellion or insurrection and coup d'etat defined
  • Penalties for rebellion, insurrection, or coup d'etat based on level of involvement
  • Leadership roles in rebellion, insurrection, or coup d'etat
  • Art. 136. Conspiracy and proposal to commit coup d'etat, rebellion or insurrection
  • Conspiracy and proposal to commit coup d'etat shall be punished by prision mayor in minimum period and a fine not exceeding eight thousand pesos (P8,000.00)
  • Conspiracy and proposal to commit rebellion or insurrection shall be punished respectively, by prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding five thousand pesos (P5,000.00) and by prision correccional in its medium period and a fine not exceeding two thousand pesos (P2,000.00)
  • Art. 137. Disloyalty of public officers or employees
  • The penalty of prision correccional in its minimum period shall be imposed upon public officers or employees who have failed to resist a rebellion by all the means in their power
  • Public officers or employees who continue to discharge the duties of their offices under the control of the rebels or accept appointment to office under them shall also be penalized
  • Art. 138. Inciting a rebellion or insurrection
  • The penalty of prision mayor in its minimum period shall be imposed upon any person who incites others to the execution of acts specified in article 134 of this Code, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, banners or other representations