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  2. List of Philippine legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Definition and use A.C., [1] administrative case [2] N/A: English A case brought under administrative law in the form of a quasi-judicial proceeding by an agency of a non-judicial branch of government, or, the Office of the Court Administrator. Normally, such cases are internal disciplinary matters—court cases criminal and civil can be ...

  3. Squatting in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Squatting is criminalized by the Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992 (RA 7279), also known as the Lina Law. There have been various attempts to regularize squatter settlements, such as the Zonal Improvement Program and the Community Mortgage Program. In 2018, the Philippine Statistics Authority estimated that out of the country's ...

  4. Trespass - Wikipedia

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    Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person (see below), trespass to chattels, and trespass to land. Trespass to the person historically involved six separate trespasses: threats, assault, battery, wounding, mayhem (or maiming), and false imprisonment. [ 1 ]

  5. Trespass to land - Wikipedia

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    Trespass to land, also called trespass to realty or trespass to real property, or sometimes simply trespass, is a common law tort or a crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) enters the land of another without a lawful excuse. Trespass to land is actionable per se ...

  6. Philippine legal codes - Wikipedia

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    The Civil Code governs private law in the Philippines, including obligations and contracts, succession, torts and damages, property. It was enacted in 1950. Book I of the Civil Code, which governed marriage and family law, was supplanted by the Family Code in 1987. [2] Republic Act No. 6657: Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Code

  7. Defence of property - Wikipedia

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    Holroyd J. instructed a jury that violence could not be used against a civil trespasser, adding: "But, the making an attack upon a dwelling, and especially at night, the law regards as equivalent to an assault on a man's person; for a man's house is his castle and therefore, in the eye of the law, it is equivalent to an assault."

  8. Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of ...

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    Within the laws of the United States, The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, also known as H.R. 347, Pub. L. 112–98 (text), is a federal law in the United States allowing the Secret Service extra jurisdiction to make arrests and suppress protests in cases of trespass on restricted locations and intentional disruption of government functions.

  9. Philippine House Committee on Public Order and Safety

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    As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction is on the suppression of criminality which includes the following: [1] Bureau of Fire Protection; Bureau of Jail Management and Penology; Philippine National Police and private security agencies; Civil defense; Firecrackers and pyrotechnics; Illegal gambling; Organized crime and illegal ...