Title
Amendments to Penal Code Articles 81, 443, 446
Law
Act No. 2298
Decision Date
Nov 24, 1913
Amendment to Philippine law Act No. 2298 establishes rules for the application of penalties based on the presence of aggravating or mitigating circumstances, specifies penalties for seduction and lewd acts, and establishes penalties for the abduction of a minor with her consent.

Questions (Act No. 2298)

The court shall impose the penalty in its medium degree.

The penalty shall be imposed in its minimum degree.

The penalty shall be imposed in its maximum degree.

The court shall offset those of one class against the other according to their relative weight.

The court shall impose the penalty next lower than that prescribed by law, in the degree it deems applicable, according to the number and weight of such circumstances.

Whatever the number and weight of the aggravating circumstances, the court shall not impose a greater penalty than that prescribed by law in its maximum degree.

By considering the number and weight of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances and the greater or lesser extent of the evil produced by the crime.

Prision correctional in its minimum and medium degrees.

The same penalty as the seduction under the first paragraph: prision correctional in its minimum and medium degrees.

Arresto mayor.

The same penalty as that prescribed for the seduction under the same circumstances: prision correctional in its minimum and medium degrees.

Prision correctional in its minimum and medium degrees.

It qualifies the offense and determines which penalty provision applies (seduction or abduction of a qualified age-range victim).

They determine whether the court imposes the minimum, medium, next lower, or maximum degree within the statutory framework, while the penalty type is anchored on the law’s prescribed degrees.

On its passage, in accordance with Section 1 of Act No. 1945 of the Philippine Legislature.


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