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Practice question: Duration and Effects

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Practice question

An official tells a person convicted under the Code that expiration or pardon of the principal punishment automatically restores every public-office and suffrage right, without examining the disqualification or pardon terms. Which is best?
  1. Restoration must follow the applicable legal effects and express terms; Article36 rejects the asserted automatic restoration through pardon alone
  2. Every right always revives without conditions
  3. A private employer may restore public suffrage by memorandum
  4. A pardon necessarily cancels civil indemnity
  5. Disqualification has no legal duration or effect

Legal references

  • Revised Penal Code Articles30–36 and41: https://lawphil.net/statutes/acts/act1930/act_3815_1930.html

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