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Falsification by private individual and use of falsified documents ₱1,000,000 Yes Falsification of wireless, cable, telegraph and telephone messages Creation of dispatch Yes Usage of dispatch Yes False medical certificates, false certificates of merits or service, etc. If physician or surgeon, or if a public officer ₱200,000 Yes
This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties ...
A citizen's arrest is an arrest made by a private citizen – a person who is not acting as a sworn law-enforcement official. [1] In common law jurisdictions, the practice dates back to medieval England and the English common law, in which sheriffs encouraged ordinary citizens to help apprehend law breakers.
Honest services fraud is a crime defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1346 (the federal mail and wire fraud statute), added by the United States Congress in 1988. [1] The idea of this law was to criminalize not only schemes to defraud victims of money and property, but also schemes to defraud victims of intangible rights such as the "honest services" of a public official.
The first "modern" false pretense statute, the Obtaining Money by False Pretences, etc. Act 1757 (30 Geo. 2. c. 24) was enacted by Parliament in 1757. [9] The statute prohibited obtaining "money, goods, wares, or merchandise" by "false pretence." [9] The first general embezzlement statute, the Embezzlement Act 1799 (39 Geo. 3. c.
The United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights suggested that the case was part of a "pattern of intimidation" against the Philippine press, [3] while Amnesty International called on the judiciary to "quash" the cases, [12] as did Human Rights Watch. [13] A group of United States senators called the verdict a "travesty of justice" that ...
Universal Music Group has posted a fiery response to Drake’s lawsuit around Kendrick Lamar’s brutal diss track, “Not Like Us,” in which he accuses the company — his label for more than a ...
The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003, officially designated as Republic Act No. 9208, is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 2444 and House Bill No. 4432.It was enacted and passed by Congress of the Philippines' Senate of the Philippines and House of Representatives of the Philippines (12th Congress of the Philippines, 2001–2004) assembled on May 12, 2003, and signed into law (List of ...