Title One

CRIMES AGAINST NATIONAL SECURITY AND THE

LAW OF NATIONS
Chapter One
CRIMES AGAINST NATIONAL SECURITY
Section One. Treason and espionage
Art. 114.
Art. 115.
treason
Art. 116.
Art. 117.

Treason
Conspiracy and proposal to commit
Misprision of treason
Espionage.

Section Two. Provoking war and disloyalty in

case of war
Art. 118. Inciting to war or giving motives for
reprisals.
Art. 119. Violation of neutrality.
Art. 120. Correspondence with hostile country
Art. 121. Flight to enemy country
Section Three. Piracy and mutiny on the high
seas
Art. 122. Piracy in general and mutiny on the
high seas.
Art. 123. Qualified piracy.
Title Two
CRIMES AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS
OF THE STATE
Chapter One
ARBITRARY DETENTION OR EXPULSION,
VIOLATION
OF DWELLING, PROHIBITION, INTERRUPTION,
AND
DISSOLUTION OF PEACEFUL MEETINGS AND
CRIMES
AGAINST RELIGIOUS WORSHIP
Section One. Arbitrary detention and
expulsion

Art. 124. Arbitrary detention.

Art. 125. Delay in the delivery of detained
persons to the proper judicial authorities.
Art. 126. Delaying release.
Art. 127. Expulsion.

Section Two. Violation of domicile

Art. 128. Violation of domicile.
Art. 129. Search warrants maliciously obtained
and abuse in the service of those legally
obtained.
Art. 130. Searching domicile without witnesses.
Section Three. Prohibition, interruption and
dissolution of peaceful meetings
Art. 131. Prohibition, interruption and dissolution
of peaceful meetings.
Section Four. Crimes against religious worship
Art. 132. Interruption of religious worship.
Art. 133. Offending the religious feelings.
Title Three
CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER
Chapter One
REBELLION, SEDITION AND DISLOYALTY
Art. 134. Rebellion or insurrection; How
committed.
Article 134-A. Coup d'etat; How committed.
Art. 135. Penalty for rebellion, insurrection or
coup d'etat.
Art. 136. Conspiracy and proposal to commit
coup d'etat, rebellion or insurrection.
Art. 137. Disloyalty of public officers or
employees.
Art. 138. Inciting a rebellion or insurrection.

Art.
Art.
Art.
Art.

139.
140.
141.
142.

Sedition; How committed.

Penalty for sedition.
Conspiracy to commit sedition.
Inciting to sedition.
Chapter Two
CRIMES AGAINST POPULAR
REPRESENTATION

Section One. Crimes against legislative

bodies and similar bodies
Art. 143. Act tending to prevent the meeting of
the Assembly and similar bodies
Art. 144. Disturbance of proceedings.
Section Two. Violation of parliamentary
immunity
Art. 145. Violation of parliamentary immunity.

Chapter Three
ILLEGAL ASSEMBLIES AND ASSOCIATIONS
Art. 146. Illegal assemblies.
Art. 147. Illegal associations.
Chapter Four
ASSAULT UPON, AND RESISTANCE AND
DISOBEDIENCE
TO, PERSONS IN AUTHORITY AND THEIR
AGENTS
Art. 148. Direct assaults
Art. 149. Indirect assaults.
Art. 150. Disobedience to summons issued by
the National Assembly, its committees or
subcommittees, by the Constitutional
Commissions, its committees, subcommittees or
divisions.
Art. 151. Resistance and disobedience to a
person in authority or the agents of such
person.

Art. 152. Persons in authority and agents of

persons in authority; Who shall be deemed as
such.
Chapter Five
PUBLIC DISORDERS
Art. 153. Tumults and other disturbance of public
orders; Tumultuous disturbance or interruption
liable to cause disturbance
Art. 154. Unlawful use of means of publication
and unlawful utterances
Art. 155. Alarms and scandals
Art. 156. Delivery of prisoners from jails.

Chapter Six
EVASION OF SERVICE OF SENTENCE
Art. 157. Evasion of service of sentence
Art. 158. Evasion of service of sentence on the
occasion of disorder, conflagrations,
earthquakes, or other calamities.
Art. 159. Other cases of evasion of service of
sentence.
Chapter Seven
COMMISSION OF ANOTHER CRIME DURING
SERVICE OF PENALTY IMPOSED FOR
ANOTHER PREVIOUS OFFENSE
Art. 160. Commission of another crime during
service of penalty imposed for another offense;
Penalty.

Title Four
CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC INTEREST
Chapter One
FORGERIES

Section One. Forging the seal of the

Government of the Philippine Islands, the
signature or stamp of the Chief Executive
Art. 161. Counterfeiting the great seal of the
Government of the Philippine Islands, forging the
signature or stamp of the Chief Executive
Art. 162. Using forged signature or counterfeit
seal or stamp.
Section Two. Counterfeiting Coins
Art. 163. Making and importing and uttering
false coins.
Art. 164. Mutilation of coins; Importation and
utterance of mutilated coins.
Art. 165. Selling of false or mutilated coin,
without connivance.
Art. 166. Forging treasury or bank notes on
other documents payable to bearer; importing,
and uttering such false or forged notes and
documents.
Art. 167. Counterfeiting, importing and uttering
instruments not payable to bearer.
Art. 168. Illegal possession and use of false
treasury or bank notes and other instruments of
credit
Art. 169. How forgery is committed.
Section Four. Falsification of legislative,
public, commercial, and private documents, and
wireless, telegraph, and telephone message
Art. 170. Falsification of legislative documents.
Art. 171. Falsification by public officer,
employee or notary or ecclesiastic minister.
Art. 172. Falsification by private individual and
use of falsified documents
Art. 173. Falsification of wireless, cable,
telegraph and telephone messages, and use of
said falsified messages.
Section Five. Falsification of medical
certificates, certificates of merit or services and
the like

Art. 174. False medical certificates, false

certificates of merits or service, etc.
Art. 175. Using false certificates
Section Six. Manufacturing, importing and
possession of instruments or implements
intended for the commission of falsification
Art. 176. Manufacturing and possession of
instruments or implements for falsification.
Chapter Two
OTHER FALSIFICATIONS
Section One. Usurpation of authority, rank,
title, and improper use of names, uniforms and
insignia
Art. 177. Usurpation of authority or official
functions.
Art. 178. Using fictitious name and concealing
true name
Art. 179. Illegal use of uniforms or insignia.
Section Two. False testimony
Art. 180. False testimony against a defendant.
Art. 181. False testimony favorable to the
defendants.
Art. 182. False testimony in civil cases.
Art. 183. False testimony in other cases and
perjury in solemn affirmation.
Art. 184. Offering false testimony in evidence.
Chapter Three
FRAUDS
Section One. Machinations, monopolies and
combinations
Art. 185. Machinations in public auctions.
Art. 186. Monopolies and combinations in
restraint of trade.

Section Two. Frauds in commerce and

industry
Art. 187. Importation and disposition of falsely
marked articles or merchandise made of gold,
silver, or other precious metals or their alloys.
Art. 188. Subsisting and altering trade-mark,
trade-names, or service marks.
Art. 189. Unfair competition, fraudulent
registration of trade- mark, trade-name or
service mark, fraudulent designation of origin,
and false description.
Title Five
CRIMES RELATIVE TO OPIUM AND OTHER
PROHIBITED DRUGS
[Art. 190. Possession, preparation and use of
prohibited drugs and maintenance of opium
dens.
[Art. 191. Keeper, watchman and visitor of
opium den.
[Art. 192. Importation and sale of prohibited
drugs
[The same penalty shall be imposed upon any
person who shall unlawfully sell or deliver to
another prohibited drug.]
[Art. 193. Illegal possession of opium pipe or
other paraphernalia for the use of any prohibited
drug.
[Art. 194. Prescribing opium unnecessary for a
patient.

Title Six
CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS
Chapter One
GAMBLING AND BETTING
[ Art. 195. What acts are punishable in gambling
Art. 196. Importation, sale and possession of
lottery tickets or advertisements.

Art. 197. Betting in sports contests.

Art. 198. Illegal betting on horse race.
Art. 199. Illegal cockfighting.
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Chapter Two
OFFENSES AGAINST DECENCY AND GOOD
CUSTOMS
Art. 200. Grave scandal.
Art. 201. Immoral doctrines, obscene
publications and exhibitions and indecent
shows.
Art. 202. Vagrants and prostitutes; penalty.
Title Seven
CRIMES COMMITTED BY PUBLIC OFFICERS
Chapter One
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
Art. 203. Who are public officers.
Chapter Two
MALFEASANCE AND MISFEASANCE IN
OFFICE
Section One. Dereliction of duty
Art. 204. Knowingly rendering unjust judgment.
Art. 205. Judgment rendered through
negligence.
Art. 206. Unjust interlocutory order.
Art. 207. Malicious delay in the administration of
justice.
Art. 208. Prosecution of offenses; negligence
and tolerance.
Art. 209. Betrayal of trust by an attorney or
solicitor

Section Two. Bribery

Art. 210. Direct bribery.

Art. 211. Indirect bribery.
Art. 212. Corruption of public officials.
Chapter Three
FRAUDS AND ILLEGAL EXACTIONS AND
TRANSACTIONS
Art. 213. Frauds against the public treasury and
similar offenses
Art. 214. Other frauds
Art. 215. Prohibited transactions.
Art. 216. Possession of prohibited interest by a
public officer.
Chapter Four
MALVERSATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS OR
PROPERTY
Art. 217. Malversation of public funds or
property; Presumption of malversation
Art. 218. Failure of accountable officer to render
accounts.
Art. 219. Failure of a responsible public officer to
render accounts before leaving the country
Art. 220. Illegal use of public funds or property.
Art. 221. Failure to make delivery of public funds
or property.
Art. 222. Officers included in the preceding
provisions.
Chapter Five
INFIDELITY OF PUBLIC OFFICERS
Section One. Infidelity in the custody of
prisoners
Art. 223. Conniving with or consenting to
evasion.
Art. 224. Evasion through negligence
Art. 225. Escape of prisoner under the custody
of a person not a public officer.
Section Two. Infidelity in the custody of
document

Art. 226. Removal, concealment or destruction

of documents.
Art. 227. Officer breaking seal.
Art. 228. Opening of closed documents.
Section Three. Revelation of secrets
Art. 229. Revelation of secrets by an officer.
Art. 230. Public officer revealing secrets of
private individual.
Chapter Six
OTHER OFFENSES OR IRREGULARITIES BY
PUBLIC OFFICERS
Art. 231. Open disobedience.
Art. 232. Disobedience to order of superior
officers, when said order was suspended by
inferior officer.
Art. 233. Refusal of assistance.
Art. 234. Refusal to discharge elective office.
Art. 235. Maltreatment of prisoners.
Section Two. Anticipation, prolongation and
abandonment of the duties and powers of public
office
Art. 236. Anticipation of duties of a public office.
Art. 238. Abandonment of office or position
Section Three. Usurpation of powers and
unlawful appointments
Art. 239. Usurpation of legislative powers.
Art. 240. Usurpation of executive functions.
Art. 241. Usurpation of judicial functions
Art. 242. Disobeying request for disqualification.
Art. 243. Orders or requests by executive
officers to any judicial authority.
Art. 244. Unlawful appointments.
Section Four. Abuses against chastity
Art. 245. Abuses against chastity; Penalties.

Title Eight
CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS
Chapter One
DESTRUCTION OF LIFE
Section One. Parricide, murder, homicide
Art. 246. Parricide
Art. 247. Death or physical injuries inflicted
under exceptional circumstances.
Art. 248. Murder
Art. 249. Homicide
Art. 250. Penalty for frustrated parricide, murder
or homicide
Art. 251. Death caused in a tumultuous affray.
Art. 252. Physical injuries inflicted in a
tumultuous affray.
Art. 253. Giving assistance to suicide
Art. 254. Discharge of firearms
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Art. 255. Infanticide.
Art. 256. Intentional abortion.
Art. 257. Unintentional abortion.
Art. 258. Abortion practiced by the woman
herself of by her parents
Art. 259. Abortion practiced by a physician or
midwife and dispensing of abortives.
Section Three. Duel
Art. 260. Responsibility of participants in a duel.
Art. 261. Challenging to a duel.
Chapter Two
PHYSICAL INJURIES
Art. 262. Mutilation.

Art. 264. Administering injurious substances or

beverages.
Art. 265. Less serious physical injuries.
Art. 266. Slight physical injuries and
maltreatment.

Title Nine
CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL LIBERTY AND
SECURITY
Chapter One
CRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY
Art. 267. Kidnapping and serious illegal
detention
Art. 268. Slight illegal detention.
Art. 269. Unlawful arrest
Section Two. Kidnapping of minors
Art. 270. Kidnapping and failure to return a
minor.
Art. 271. Inducing a minor to abandon his home
Art. 272. Slavery.
Art. 273. Exploitation of child labor.
Art. 274. Services rendered under compulsion in
payment of debt.
Chapter Two
CRIMES AGAINST SECURITY
Section One. Abandonment of helpless
persons and exploitation of minors
Art. 275. Abandonment of person in danger and
abandonment of one's own victim.
Art. 276. Abandoning a minor.
Art. 277. Abandonment of minor by person
entrusted with his custody; indifference of
parents.
Art. 278. Exploitation of minors.
Art. 279. Additional penalties for other offenses.
Section Two. Trespass to dwelling

Art. 280. Qualified trespass to dwelling.

Art. 281. Other forms of trespass.
Section Three. Threats and coercion
Art. 282. Grave threats.
Art. 283. Light threats.
Art. 284. Bond for good behavior.
Art. 285. Other light threats.
Art. 286. Grave coercions.
Art. 287. Light coercions.
Art. 288. Other similar coercions; (Compulsory
purchase of merchandise and payment of wages
by means of tokens.)
Art. 289. Formation, maintenance and
prohibition of combination of capital or labor
through violence or threats.
Chapter Three
DISCOVERY AND REVELATION OF SECRETS
Art. 290. Discovering secrets through seizure of
correspondence.
Art. 291. Revealing secrets with abuse of office.
Art. 292. Revelation of industrial secrets.
Title Ten
CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
Chapter One
ROBBERY IN GENERAL
Art. 293. Who are guilty of robbery.
Art. 295. Robbery with violence against or
intimidation of persons; Penalties.
Art. 295. 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.
Art. 296. Definition of a band and penalty
incurred by the members thereof.
Art. 297. Attempted and frustrated robbery
committed under certain circumstances.
Art. 298. Execution of deeds by means of
violence or intimidation.

Section Two. Robbery by the use of force

upon things
Art. 299. Robbery in an inhabited house or
public building or edifice devoted to worship
Art. 300. Robbery in an uninhabited place and
by a band.
Art. 301. What is an inhabited house, public
building or building dedicated to religious
worship and their dependencies.
Art. 302. Robbery is an uninhabited place or in a
private building.
Art. 303. Robbery of cereals, fruits, or firewood
in an uninhabited place or private building
Art. 304. Possession of picklocks or similar tools.
Art. 305. False keys.
Chapter Two
BRIGANDAGE
Art. 306. Who are brigands; Penalty.
Art. 307. Aiding and abetting a band of
brigands.
Chapter Three
THEFT
Art. 308. Who are liable for theft.
Art. 309. Penalties.
Art. 310. Qualified theft.
Art. 311. Theft of the property of the National
Library and National Museum.
Chapter Four
USURPATION
Art. 312. Occupation of real property or
usurpation of real rights in property.
Art. 313. Altering boundaries or landmarks.
Chapter Five
CULPABLE INSOLVENCY
Art. 314. Fraudulent insolvency.

Chapter Six
SWINDLING AND OTHER DECEITS
Art.
Art.
Art.
Art.

315.
316.
317.
318.

Swindling (estafa).
Other forms of swindling.
Swindling a minor.
Other deceits.
Chapter Seven
CHATTEL MORTGAGE

Art. 319. Removal, sale or pledge of mortgaged

property.
Chapter Eight
ARSON AND OTHER CRIMES INVOLVING
DESTRUCTIONS
Art. 320. Destructive arson.
Art. 321. Other forms of arson.
Art. 322. Cases of arson not included in the
preceding articles.
Art. 323. Arson of property of small value.
Art. 324. Crimes involving destruction.
Art. 325. Burning one's own property as means
to commit arson.
Art. 326. Setting fire to property exclusively
owned by the offender
Art. 326-A. In cases where death resulted as a
consequence of arson
Art. 326-B. Prima facie evidence of arson.
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Chapter Nine
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF
Art. 327. Who are liable for malicious mischief.

Art. 328. Special cases of malicious mischief.

Art. 330. Damage and obstruction to means of
communication.
Art. 331. Destroying or damaging statues, public
monuments or paintings
Chapter Ten
EXEMPTION FROM CRIMINAL LIABILITY
IN CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
Art. 332. Persons exempt from criminal liability.
Title Eleven
CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY
Chapter One
ADULTERY AND CONCUBINAGE
Art. 333. Who are guilty of adultery.
Art. 334. Concubinage.
Chapter Two
RAPE AND ACTS OF LASCIVIOUSNESS
Art. 335. When and how rape is committed.
Art. 336. Acts of lasciviousness.
Chapter Three
SEDUCTION, CORRUPTION OF MINORS
AND WHITE SLAVE TRADE
Art. 337. Qualified seduction.
Art. 338. Simple seduction.
Art. 339. Acts of lasciviousness with the consent
of the offended party.
Art. 340. Corruption of minors.
Art. 341. White slave trade
Chapter Four
ABDUCTION
Art. 342. Forcible abduction.
Art. 343. Consented abduction.
Chapter Five
PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO THE PRECEDING
CHAPTERS OF TITLE ELEVEN

Art. 344. Prosecution of the crimes of adultery,

concubinage, seduction, abduction, rape and
acts of lasciviousness.
Art. 345. Civil liability of persons guilty of crimes
against chastity.
Art. 346. Liability of ascendants, guardians,
teachers, or other persons entrusted with the
custody of the offended party

Title Twelve
CRIMES AGAINST THE CIVIL STATUS OF
PERSONS
Chapter one
SIMULATION OF BIRTHS AND USURPATION
OF CIVIL STATUS
Art. 347. Simulation of births, substitution of one
child for another and concealment or
abandonment of a legitimate child
Art. 348. Usurpation of civil status.
Chapter Two
ILLEGAL MARRIAGES
Art. 349. Bigamy
Art. 350. Marriage contracted against provisions
of laws.
Art. 351. Premature marriages.
Art. 352. Performance of illegal marriage
ceremony.
Title Thirteen
CRIMES AGAINST HONOR
Chapter One
LIBEL

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Art. 353. Definition of libel.
Art. 354. Requirement for publicity
Art. 355. Libel means by writings or similar
means.
Art. 356. Threatening to publish and offer to
present such publication for a compensation.
Art. 357. Prohibited publication of acts referred
to in the course of official proceedings.
Art. 358. Slander.
Art. 359. Slander by deed.
Section Two. General provisions
Art. 360. Persons responsible.
Art. 361. Proof of the truth.
Art. 362. Libelous remarks.

Chapter Two
INCRIMINATORY MACHINATIONS
Art. 363. Incriminating innocent person.
Art. 364. Intriguing against honor.
Title Fourteen
QUASI-OFFENSES
Sole Chapter
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE
Art. 365. Imprudence and negligence.
Art. 366. Application of laws enacted prior to this
Code.
Art. 367. Repealing Clause.
The provisions of the
Act 1508, Sections 9,
Acts
which
are
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and
mentioned
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And all laws and
parts of laws which
are contrary to the
provisions of this
Code
are
hereby
repealed.
Approved:
December 8, 1930
Title of acts repealed
by the Revised Penal
Code are:
1. Act No. 277. Law
on Libel and threats
to publish libel, etc.,
now provided for in
Arts. 353, 362.
2. Act No. 292,
amended by Act No.
1692. Law defining
and penalizing the
crimes of treason,
insurrection,
sedition, etc., now

provided for in Arts.

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3. Act No. 480. Law
governing
cockfighting
and
cockpits,
now
governed by Art. 199
and
special
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4. Act No. 518,
amended by Act Nos.
1121 and 2036. Law
defining
and
penalizing
highway
robbery
or
brigandage,
now
covered by Arts. 306307.chanrobles
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5. Act No. 519. Law
on vagrancy now
penalized by Art.
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6. Act No. 666, Secs.
and 6 and 18. Law on
trade-marks
and
trade-names
now
provided for in Arts.
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7. Act No. 899, Law
regarding suspension
on sentence, etc.,
upon
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8. Act No. 1438,
amended by Act Nos.
3203,
3309,
and
3559,
provisions
governing
juvenile
offenders
and

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their
care
and
custody,
now
governed
by
Art.
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9. Act No. 1508,
Secs. 9, 10, 11, and
12.
The
Chattel
Mortgage Law, now
penalized
in
Art.
319.chanrobles
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10. Act No. 1523.
Law
prohibiting
importation,
sale
etc., of lottery tickets
and
lottery,
now
penalized in Arts.
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11. Act No. 1524.
Sec.
4.
Law
governing discretion
of Governor-General
in
granting
conditional pardons,
now covered by Art.
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12. Act No. 15533,
Secs. 1, 2, and 6
amended by Act No.
1559. Law providing
for
diminution
of
sentences by reason
of good conduct and
diligence,
now
governed
by
Art.
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13. Act No. 1697,
Secs. 3 and 4. Act for
the punishment of

perjury
in
official
investigations, now
provided for in Arts.
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14. Act No. 1754.
Law
on
counterfeiting
and
forgery, now defined
and
penalized
in
Arts.
160169.chanrobles
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15. Act No. 1775. Act
penalizing
crimes
against
legislative
bodies, now provided
for in Arts. 143145.chanrobles
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16. Act No. 1757.
Secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, (first clause), 11
and 12 amended by
Act No. 3242. Act
prohibiting gambling,
now provided for in
Arts.
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17. Act No. 1173.
Law on the crime of
adulterio,
estupro,
rapto,
violacion,
calumnia,
injuria,
etc., now governed
by
Arts.
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18. Act Nos. 2071
and
2300.
Act
governing
slavery,
involuntary
servitude, peonage,
and the sale or
purchase of human

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now
penalized in Arts.
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19. Act No. 2212. Act
providing
for
the
confiscation
and
disposition of money,
articles, instruments,
appliances
and
devices in gambling,
now provided for in
Art.
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20. Act No. 293. Act
penalizing
willful
destruction, injury, or
taking or carrying
away any property of
the
Philippine
Library,
now
provided for in Art.
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21. Act No. 2364. Act
penalizing infidelity
in the custody of
prisoners
detained
for or a convicted of
a
crime,
now
governed by Arts.
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22. Act No. 2381.
Secs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,
and 9. Act restricting
the use of opium,
etc., now provided
for in Arts. 190194.chanrobles
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23. Act No. 2549. Act
prohibiting
the
forcing, compelling,
or obliging of any
laborer
or
other

employee
to
purchase
merchandise,
commodities,
or
personal
property
under
certain
conditions, and the
payment of wages of
a
laborer
or
employee by means
of tokens or objects
other
than
legal
tender currency, now
penalized by Art.
288,
and
also
governed by Com.
Act No. 303 and the
Minimum Wage Law,
Rep. Act No. 602, as
amended by Rep.
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24. Act No. 2557. Act
providing
for
the
allowance to persons
convicted
of
preventive
imprisonment, etc.,
now embodied in Art.
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25. Act No. 2595.
Law
fixing
prescription of the
crime of libel and of
a civil action arising
therefrom,
now
provided
in
Art.
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26. Act No. 2711,
Secs.
102,
2670,
2671, and 2672. Act

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the
Revised
Administrative
Code.chanrobles
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27. Act No. 3104
amending Acts 2726.
Law
governing
manner in which the
death penalty shall
be executed, now
embodied in Arts. 1885.chanrobles virtual
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28. Act No. 3586 and
3397. Law governing
habitual delinquency,
now provided in Art.

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29. General Orders
No. 58, series of
1900, Sec. 106. Code
of
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30.
Other
laws
repealed
by
the
Revised Penal Code
are Acts Nos. 2030,
2142, 2298, 2712,
3195, 3244, 3298,
and 3313, which are
merely amendatory
laws on the old Penal
Code.