Article 34Act No. 3815, Sec./Art. 34

Civil interdiction.-Civil interdiction shall deprive the offender during the time of his sentence of the rights of parental authority, or guardianship, either as to the person or property of any ward, of marital authority, of the right to manage his property and of the right to dispose of such property by any act or any conveyance inter vivos.

REVISED PENAL CODE TEXT AND SPECIAL PENAL LAWS

When

the

rape

is

attempted

and

a

homicide

is

committed by reason or on the occasion thereof, the

penalty shall be reclusion temporal to reclusion perpetua.

When by reason or on the occasion of the rape, homicide

is committed, the penalty shall be reclusion perpetua.

Reclusion temporal shall also be imposed if the rape is

committed with any of the ten aggravating/qualifying

circumstances mentioned in this article.

Article 266-C. Effect of Pardon. — The subsequent valid

marriage between the offender and the offended party

shall

extinguish

the

criminal

action

or

the

penalty

imposed.

In case it is the legal husband who is the offender, the

subsequent forgiveness by the wife as the offended party

shall

extinguish

the

criminal

action

or the penalty:

Provided, That the crime shall not be extinguished or the

penalty shall not be abated if the marriage is void ab

initio.

Article 266-D. Presumptions . — Any physical overt act

manifesting resistance against the act of rape in any

degree from the offended party, or where the offended

party is so situated as to render her/him incapable of

giving valid consent, may be accepted as evidence in the

prosecution of the acts punished under Article 266-A.

(as created by The Anti-Rape Law of 1997, Republic Act

No. 8353, [September 30, 1997])

Title Nine CRIMES AGAINST PERSONAL

LIBERTY AND SECURITY

Chapter One CRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY

Section One. - Illegal Detention

Article 267. Kidnapping and serious illegal detention. -

Any private individual who shall kidnap or detain another,

or in any other manner deprive him of his liberty, shall

suffer the penalty of reclusion perpetua to death:

1. If the kidnapping or detention shall have lasted more

than five days.

2. If it shall have been committed simulating public

authority.

3. If any serious physical injuries shall have been inflicted

upon the person kidnapped or detained; or if threats to

kill him shall have been made.

4. If the person kidnapped or detained shall be a minor,

female or a public officer.

The penalty shall be death where the kidnapping or

detention was committed for the purpose of extorting

ransom from the victim or any other person, even if none

of the circumstances above-mentioned were present in

the commission of the offense.

When the victim is killed or dies as a consequence of the

detention or is raped, or is subjected to torture or

dehumanizing

acts,

the

maximum

penalty

shall

be

imposed.

(as

amended

by

Republic

Act

No.

7659,

[December 13, 1993])

Article 268. Slight illegal detention. - The penalty of

reclusion temporal shall be imposed upon any private

individual who shall commit the crimes described in the

next preceding article without the attendance of any of

circumstances enumerated therein.

The same penalty shall be incurred by anyone who shall

furnish the place for the perpetration of the crime.

If the offender shall voluntarily release the person so

kidnapped

or

detained

within

three days from the

commencement

of

the

detention,

without

having

attained the purpose intended, and before the institution

of criminal proceedings against him, the penalty shall be

prision mayor in its minimum and medium periods and a

fine

not

exceeding

One

hundred

thousand

pesos

(P100,000)

Article 269. Unlawful arrest. - The penalty of arresto

mayor and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand

pesos (P100,000) shall be imposed upon any person who,

in any case other than those authorized by law, or without

reasonable ground therefor, shall arrest or detain another

for

the

purpose

of

delivering

him

to

the

proper

authorities.

Section Two. - Kidnapping of minors

Article 270. Kidnapping and failure to return a minor. -

The penalty of reclusion perpetua shall be imposed upon

any person who, being entrusted with the custody of a

minor person, shall deliberately fail to restore the latter to

his parents or guardians.

Article 271. Inducing a minor to abandon his home. - The

penalty of prision correccional and a fine not exceeding

One

hundred

thousand

pesos

(P100,000)

shall

be

imposed upon anyone who shall induce a minor to

abandon the home of his parent or guardians or the

persons entrusted with his custody.

If the person committing any of the crimes covered by

the two preceding articles shall be the father or the

mother of the minor, the penalty shall be arresto mayor

or a fine not exceeding Forty thousand pesos (P40,000),

or both.

Section Three. - Slavery and Servitude

Article 272. Slavery. - The penalty of prision mayor and a

fine of not exceeding 10,000 pesos shall be imposed upon

anyone who shall purchase, sell, kidnap or detain a

human being for the purpose of enslaving him.

If the crime be committed for the purpose of assigning

the offended party to some immoral traffic, the penalty

shall be imposed in its maximum period.

Article 273. Exploitation of child labor. - The penalty of

prision correccional in its minimum and medium periods

and a fine not exceeding 500 pesos shall be imposed

upon anyone who, under the pretext of reimbursing

himself of a debt incurred by an ascendant, guardian or

person entrusted with the custody of a minor, shall,

against the latter's will, retain him in his service.

Article

274.

Services rendered under compulsion in

payment of debt. - The penalty of arresto mayor in its

maximum period to prision correccional in its minimum

period shall be imposed upon any person who, in order to

require or enforce the payment of a debt, shall compel

the debtor to work for him, against his will, as household

servant or farm laborer.

Chapter Two CRIMES AGAINST SECURITY

Section One. - Abandonment of helpless persons and

exploitation of minors.

Article 275. Abandonment of person in danger and

abandonment of one's own victim. - The penalty of

arresto mayor shall be imposed upon:

1. Any one who shall fail to render assistance to any

person whom he shall find in an uninhabited place

wounded or in danger of dying, when he can render such

assistance without detriment to himself, unless such

omission shall constitute a more serious offense.

2. Anyone who shall fail to help or render assistance to

another whom he has accidentally wounded or injured.

3. Anyone who, having found an abandoned child under

seven years of age, shall fail to deliver said child to the

authorities or to his family, or shall fail to take him to a

safe place.

Article 276. Abandoning a minor. - The penalty of arresto

mayor and a fine not exceeding One hundred thousand

pesos (P100,000) shall be imposed upon any one who

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