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Practice question: Preference in Payment of Civil Liability

Multiple Choice Easy

Practice question

Under Article38, when an offender's property is insufficient for all the listed pecuniary liabilities, which comes first?
  1. Costs of proceedings.
  2. The criminal fine.
  3. Whatever payment the offender chooses.
  4. Reparation of the damage caused.
  5. Every unrelated private purchase.

Legal references

  • https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html — Revised Penal Code Articles38 and72, order of pecuniary payment and preference among civil liabilities from multiple offenses.

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