Practice question
Did Jabinal treat abandonment of the older doctrine as necessarily retroactive against the accused who relied on it?
- Yes; reliance was declared legally impossible.
- No; the abandonment was applied prospectively in the stated reliance setting.
- The Court held no judicial interpretation ever matters.
- The Court allowed every trial judge to legislate privately.
- The case concerned only a land-sale price.
Legal references
- Civil Code Articles8,13-16: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html
- People v. Jabinal, G.R.L-30061, February27,1974, MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1974/feb1974/gr_l_30061_1974.html
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