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Practice question: Primary and Subsidiary Liability

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A principal pays the class amount that includes another principal’s court-determined share through valid in-solidum enforcement. Does Article110 deny every recourse against that other principal?
  1. Every share becomes the employer’s obligation
  2. Yes, payment always extinguishes all recourse
  3. Only the victim may recover a second full award
  4. The paying principal automatically becomes criminally innocent
  5. No; it preserves an action for the other’s respective share

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code, Articles95-96,109-110 and159, as applicable: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html

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