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Practice question: Preference in Payment of Civil Liability

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Practice question

Under Article72, what generally determines the order of satisfying civil liabilities arising from two or more offenses?
  1. The offender's preferred creditor.
  2. The chronological dates of the final judgments, beginning with the first.
  3. The alphabetical order of victims' surnames.
  4. Only the seriousness of the imprisonment terms.
  5. The date the offender first hired counsel.

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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