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Practice question: Successive Service of Sentence

Multiple Choice Easy Jurisprudence

Practice question

In Article70’s successive-service scale, which comes first: arresto menor or destierro?
  1. Arresto menor
  2. Destierro under the separate Article71 graduated scale
  3. They are necessarily identical
  4. Only the shorter actual term decides
  5. Only the administrator’s preference decides

Legal references

  • Commonwealth Act217 Section2, amended RPC Article70; Section3 Article71 for contrast: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/29/15348

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