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Practice question: Civil Liability of Persons Exempt from Criminal Liability

Multiple Choice Medium Jurisprudence

Practice question

A valid necessity intervention benefits several persons, but their respective benefits cannot equitably be estimated even approximately. The actor proposes an invented fifty-fifty allocation without identifying any governing special rule. Which is sound?
  1. An unknowable ratio automatically proves equal benefit.
  2. Every allocation must be exactly fifty-fifty.
  3. No applicable legal rule need be examined.
  4. Identify the applicable special laws or regulations rather than substitute the invented universal split.
  5. The most outspoken beneficiary alone pays everything.

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code, Article 101, second rule and special-law allocation situations: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/28/20426

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