An Act Amending Paragraph Numbered Five of Article Five Hundred and Three, and Articles Five Hundred and Eight, Five Hundred and Twelve, and Five Hundred and Twenty of the Penal Code, by Imposing a Severer Penalty for the Crimes of Robbery and Theft of Large Cattle
Act No. 2030, enacted on February 3, 1911, amends specific provisions of the Philippine Penal Code to impose harsher penalties for robbery and theft involving large cattle. It establishes that theft of large cattle, which includes carabaos, horses, mules, asses, and members of the bovine family, will result in penalties ranging from presidio correctional in its maximum degree to presidio mayor in its minimum degree. The Act modifies several articles of the Penal Code to ensure that these stricter penalties are consistently applied. Additionally, the law took effect immediately upon its passage, highlighting its urgency for public good.
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- Act No. 2030, enacted on February 3, 1911, amends specific provisions of the Philippine Penal Code to impose harsher penalties for robbery and theft involving large cattle. It establishes that theft of large cattle, which includes carabaos, horses, mules, asses, and members of the bovine family, will result in penalties ranging from presidio correctional in its maximum degree to presidio mayor in its minimum degree. The Act modifies several articles of the Penal Code to ensure that these stricter penalties are consistently applied. Additionally, the law took effect immediately upon its passage, highlighting its urgency for public good.
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- An Act Amending Paragraph Numbered Five of Article Five Hundred and Three, and Articles Five Hundred and Eight, Five Hundred and Twelve, and Five Hundred and Twenty of the Penal Code, by Imposing a Severer Penalty for the Crimes of Robbery and Theft of Large Cattle (Act No. 2030) was enacted on Feb 3, 1911.
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- An Act Amending Paragraph Numbered Five of Article Five Hundred and Three, and Articles Five Hundred and Eight, Five Hundred and Twelve, and Five Hundred and Twenty of the Penal Code, by Imposing a Severer Penalty for the Crimes of Robbery and Theft of Large Cattle, Act No. 2030, Feb 3, 1911 (Philippines)
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February 3, 1911
ACT NO. 2030
AN ACT AMENDING PARAGRAPH NUMBERED FIVE OF ARTICLE FIVE HUNDRED AND THREE, AND ARTICLES FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHT, FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE, AND FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY OF THE PENAL CODE, BY IMPOSING A SEVERER PENALTY FOR THE CRIMES OF ROBBERY AND THEFT OF LARGE CATTLE
SECTION 1. Paragraph numbered five of article five hundred and three of the Penal Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"5. With the penalty of presidio correctional to presidio mayor in its medium degree in other cases, except where the thing stolen was any kind of large cattle, in which case the guilty person shall be punished with the penalty of presidio correctional in its maximum decree to presidio mayor in its medium degree."
SECTION 2. Article five hundred and eight of the Penal Code is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:
"In the cases mentioned in the three last preceding paragraphs, when the thing stolen was any kind of large cattle the guilty persons shall be punished with the penalty of presidio correctional in its maximum degree to presidio mayor in its minimum degree."
SECTION 3. Article five hundred and twelve of the Penal Code is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:
"In the cases mentioned in this article, when the thing stolen was any kind of large cattle the guilty persons shall be punished with the penalty of presidio correctional in its maximum degree to presidio mayor in its minimum degree."
SECTION 4. Article five hundred and twenty of the existing Penal Code is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:
"4. If the thing stolen was any kind of large cattle."
SECTION 5. For the purposes of this Act the term "Large cattle" shall be held to include carabaos, horses, mules, asses, and all members of the bovine family. cSaATC
SECTION 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the same shall take effect on its passage, in accordance with section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five of the Philippine Legislature.
ENACTED, February 3, 1911.
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An Act Amending Paragraph Numbered Five of Article Five Hundred and Three, and Articles Five Hundred and Eight, Five Hundred and Twelve, and Five Hundred and Twenty of the Penal Code, by Imposing a Severer Penalty for the Crimes of Robbery and Theft of Large Cattle, Act No. 2030, Feb 3, 1911 (Philippines)
An Act Amending Paragraph Numbered Five of Article Five Hundred and Three, and Articles Five Hundred and Eight, Five Hundred and Twelve, and Five Hundred and Twenty of the Penal Code, by Imposing a Severer Penalty for the Crimes of Robbery and Theft of Large Cattle, Act No. 2030 (Phil. 1911)
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