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WEEKLY ASSESSMENT CLJ 2

criminal law

What is that branch or division of law which defines crimes, treats of their nature, and
provides for their punishment?

bill of attainder

It is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without judicial trial.

crime committed outside the country

It is the exception of general characteristics of criminal law.

Act OR Overt act

It is understood any bodily movement tending to produce some effect in the external
world, it being unnecessary that the same be actually produced, as the possibility of its
production is sufficient.

Omission

Is the failure to perform a positive duty which one is bound to do? There must be a law
requiring the doing or performance of an act.

Which of the following is NOT a requisite of intentional felony?


Freedom

foresight

Intelligence

Intent

mistake fact

It is the misapprehension of fact on the part of the person who caused injury to another.

indeterminate offense

It is one where the purpose of the offender in performing an act is not certain. Its nature in
relation to its objective is ambiguous.

Motive

It is the moving power which impels one to action for a definite result?
less grave
These are those felonies which the law punishes with penalties which their maximum
period are correctional.
proposal to commit felony

This exist when a person who decided to commit a felony proposes its execution to some other
person or person

Consummated felony

This exist when the offender performs all the elements necessary for its execution and
accomplishment are present.

Ex post facto law

It alters the legal rules of evidence, and authorizes conviction upon less or different testimony
than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense.

proximate cause

It is that cause, which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient
intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred.

overt act

It is some physical activity or deed, indicating the intention to commit a particular crime, more
than a mere planning or preparation, which if carried to its complete termination following its
natural cause, without being frustrated by external obstacles nor by the voluntary desistance of
the perpetrator, will logically and necessarily ripen into a concrete offense.

absolutory cause

These are those where the act committed is a crime but for reasons of public policy and
sentiment there is no penalty imposed.

mala prohibita

It is an act punishable under special laws.

Which of the following is NOT a Source of Philippine criminal law?

revised penal code

penal presidential decrees

batas pambansa

Royal Decree
Which of the following laws should be given retroactive application?
A law that imposes a lesser penalty than what was imposed at the time of the commission of
the offense.

light felony

These are those infractions of law for the commission of which the penalty of arresto menor or
a fine not exceeding 200 pesos, or both, is provided

unlawful aggression

It is equivalent to assault or at least threatened assault of an immediate and imminent kind.

Which of the following cases should the resulting injury be not considered as the direct, natural
and logical consequence of the felony committed?

A man who was threatened or chased by another with a knife jumped into the water and
because of the strong current r because he did not know how to swim he sank down and died of
drowning.

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