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Practice question: Suppletory Application of the Revised Penal Code

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

Under Article 10, what is the Revised Penal Code’s general relationship to special penal laws?
  1. It may supplement them unless they specially provide otherwise, with due regard to the provisions’ applicability.
  2. It automatically repeals every special penal law.
  3. It can never have any supplementary role.
  4. It replaces every special law’s express elements.
  5. It makes every special-law penalty identical.

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code, Act No. 3815, specified articles, as amended: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/28/20426; Articles 8 and 10.
  • Ladonga v People, G.R. No. 141066, February 17, 2005, main decision, Article 10 and proof of conspiracy: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2005/feb2005/gr_141066_2005.html

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