CLJ3 QUIZ 3 & ACT 1

1. 1. What is an act known as a Revised Penal Code?

• A. Act 3812

• B. Act 3814

• C. Act 3815

• D. Act 3819

2. 2. ALL ARE EXCEPTIONS TO THE GENERAL

CHARACTERISTICS EXCEPT TO:

• A. As provided by treaty stipulations

• B. As provided by laws of preferential applications

• C. Persons who are exempt because of certain principles of

  international laws

• D. When the offender shall commit an offense on a

  Philippine ship or airship.

3. 3. When there is doubt about the meaning or

   application or interpretation of a penal law and the

   doubt admits of two interpretations, one which is

   lenient to the offender and the other one is favorabe

   to him, then the interpretation which is favorable to

   the accused should be applied.

• A. PRO REO DOCTRINE

• B. CONSTRUCTION OF PENAL LAWS

• C. EXCEPTION TO THE PROSPECTIVE CHARACTER:

• D. NONE OF THE ABOVE

4. 4. The basis of criminal liability

is human free will and the purpose of penalty is

retribution. Man is a moral creature with an absolute free

will to choose between good and evil.

• A. Positivist (Realistic) Theory.

• B. Classical (Juristic) Theory

• C. English Rule

• D. French Rule

5. 5. The crime is punishable in the

Philippines, unless the crime merely affects things

within the vessel.

• A. Classical (Juristic) Theory

• B. Positivist (Realistic) Theory.

• C. French Rule

• D. English Rule

6. 6. No BLANK shall be enacted.- Ex Post Facto Law

is a law that makes criminal an act done before the passage of

the law and which was innocent when done, and punishes such

an act; it may also be defined as a law which aggravates a crime,

or makes it greater than it was, when committed.

7. 7. No BLANK shall be passed. – A bill of attainder is a

   law which inflicts punishment without trial.

8. 8. WHICH IS NOT THE REQUISITES OF DOLO OR MALICE

   (INTENTIONAL FELONIES)?

• A. Freedom of action

• B. Intelligence

• C. Intent

• D. Dignity

9. 9. WHAT IS MENS REA?

• A. Criminal Intent

• B. Imprudent, negligent, or lack of foresight or lack of

  skill

• C. Mistake of fact

• D. None of the above

10. 10. Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit

rea means?

• A. IGNORANCE OF THE LAW EXCUSES NO

  ONE FROM COMPLIANCE THE

  COMPLIANCE THEREWITH

• B. The act itself does not make a man guilty unless his

  intention was so.

• C. An act done by me against my

  will is not my act.

• D. Wrongful in nature.

  Since the beginning of

  time