ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Implied Repeal
2 Sep 2020
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Criminal law a branch of municipal law which defines crimes, treats of their nature and provides for their punishment. Characteristics of criminal law: general the law is binding to all persons who reside in the philippines, territorial the law is binding to all crimes committed within the national territory of the philippines. Exception to territorial application: instances enumerated under article 2: prospective the law does not have any retroactive effect. Exception to prospective application: when new statute is favorable to the accused. Effect of repeal of penal law to liability of offender. Total or absolute, or partial or relative repeal. As to the effect of repeal of penal law to the liability of offender, qualify your answer by saying whether the repeal is absolute or total or whether the repeal is partial or relative only. A repeal is absolute or total when the crime punished under the repealed law has been decriminalized by the repeal.
