The Revised Penal Code of the Philippines

(Codals for Criminal Law I and Criminal Procedure)

BOOK 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE DATE OF ENFORCEMENT

AND APPLICATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CODE, AND REGARDNG THE
OFFENSES, THE PERSONS LIABLE AND THE PENALTIES

Preliminary Title

Article 1: Time when Act takes effect.

Article 2: Application of its provision.

Title One: Felonies and Circumstances which affect Criminal Liability

Chapter 1: Felonies

Article 3: Definitions.

Article 4: Criminal liability.

Article 5: Duty of the court in connection with acts which should be repressed but

are not covered by the law, and in cases of excessive penalties.

Article 6: Consummated, frustrated, and attempt felonies.

Article 7: When light felonies are punishable.

Article 8: Conspiracy and proposal to commit felony.

Article 9: Grave felonies, less grave felonies and light felonies.

Article 10: Offenses not subject to the provisions of this Code.

Chapter 2: Justifying Circumstances and Circumstances which exempt from

Criminal Liability

Article 11: Justifying circumstances.

Article 12: Circumstances which exempt from criminal liability.

Chapter 3: Circumstances which mitigate Criminal Liability

Article 13: Mitigating Circumstances.

Chapter 4: Circumstance which Aggravate Criminal Liability

Article 14: Aggravating circumstances.

Chapter 5: Alternative Circumstances

Article 15: Their concept.

Title Two: Persons Criminally Liable for Felonies

Article 16: Who are criminally liable.

Article 17: Principals.

Article 18: Accomplices.

Article 19: Accessories.

Article 20: Accessories who are exempt from criminal liability.

Title Three: Penalties

Chapter 1: Penalties in General

Article 21: Penalties that may be imposed.

Article 22: Retroactive effects of penal laws.

Article 23: Effect of pardon by the offended party.

Article 24: Measures of prevention or safety which are nor considered penalties.

Chapter 2: Classification of Penalties

Article 25: Penalties which may be imposed.

Article 26: When afflictive, correctional, or high penalty

Chapter 3: Duration and Effects of Penalties

Section 1: Duration of Penalties

Article 27. Reclusion Perpetua

Reclusion Temporal

Prision mayor and temporary disqualification

Prision correccional, suspension, and destierro

Arresto mayor

Arresto menor

Article 28. Computation of penalties

Article 29. Period of preventive imprisonment deducted from term of imprisonment.

Section 2: Effects of the penalties according to their respective nature

Article 30: Effects of the penalties of perpetual or temporal absolute disqualification.

Article 31: Effect of the penalties of perpetual or temporal special disqualification.

Article 32: Effect of the penalties of perpetual or temporary special disqualification for
the exercise of the right of suffrage.

Article 33: Effect of the penalties of suspension from any public office, profession or
calling, or the right of suffrage.

Article 34: Civil interdiction.

Article 35: Effects of bond to keep the peace.

Article 36: Pardon; its effect.

Article 37. Cost; What are included.

Article 38: Pecuniary liabilities; Order of payment.

Article 39: Subsidiary penalty.

Section 3: Penalties in which other accessory penalties are inherent.

Article 40: Death; Its accessory penalties.

Article 41: Reclusion perpetua and reclusion temporal

Article 42: Prision mayor; Its accessory penalties.

Article 43: Prision correccional; Its accessory penalties.

Article 44: Arresto; Its accessory penalties.

Article 45: Confiscation and forfeiture of the proceeds or instruments of the crime.

Chapter 4: Application of Penalties

Section 1: Rules for the application of penalties to the persons criminally

liable and for the graduation of the same.

Article 46: Penalty to be imposed upon principals in general.

Article 47: In what cases the death penalty shall not be imposed.

Article 48: Penalty for complex crimes

Article 49: Penalty to be imposed upon the principals when the crime is committed is
different from that intended.

Article 50: Penalty to be imposed upon principals of a frustrated crime.

Article 51: Penalty to be imposed upon principals of attempted crimes.

Article 52: Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in consummated crime.

Article 53: Penalty to be imposed upon accessories to the commission of a

consummated felony.

Article 54: Penalty to imposed upon accomplices in a frustrated crime.

Article 55: Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of a frustrated crime.

Article 56: Penalty to be imposed upon accomplices in an attempted crime.

Article 57: Penalty to be imposed upon accessories of an attempted crime.

Article 58: Additional penalty to be imposed upon certain accessories.

Article 59: Penalty to be imposed in case of failure to commit the crime because the
means of employed or the aims sought are impossible.
Article 60: Exception to the rules established in Article 50 to 57.

Article 61: Rules for the graduating penalties

Section 2: Rules for the application of penalties with regard to the mitigating
and aggravating circumstances, and habitual delinquency

Article 62: Effect of the attendance of mitigating or aggravating circumstances and of

habitual delinquency.

Article 63: Rules for the application of indivisible penalties.

Article 64: Rules for the application of penalties which contain three periods.

Article 65: Rule in cases in which the penalty is not composed of three periods.

Article 66: Imposition of fines.

Article 67: Penalty to be imposed when not all the requisites of exemption of the fourth
circumstances of Article 12 are present.

Article 68: Penalty to be imposed upon a person under eighteen years of age.

Article 69: Penalty to be imposed when the crime committed is not wholly excusable.

Article 70: Successive service of sentence.

Article 71: Graduated scales.

Article 72: Preference in the payment of the civil liabilities.

Section 3: Provisions common in the last two preceding sections.

Article 73: Presumption in regard to the imposition of accessory penalties.

Article 74: Penalty higher than reclusion perpetua in certain cases.

Article 75: Increasing or reducing the penalty of fine by one or more degrees.

Article 76: Legal period of duration of divisible penalties.

Article 77: When the penalty is a complex one composed of three distinct penalties.

Chapter 5: Execution and Service of Penalties

Section 1: General Provisions

Article 78: When and how a penalty is to be executed.

Article 79: Suspension of the execution and service of the penalties in case of insanity.

Article 80: Suspension of sentence of minor delinquents.

Section 2: Execution of principal penalties.

Article 81: When and how the death penalty is to be executed.

Article 82: Notification and execution of the sentence and assistance to the culprit.
Article 83: Suspension of the execution of the death sentence.

Article 84: Place of execution and persons who may witness the same.

Article 85: Provisions relative to the corpse of the person executed and its burials.

Article 86: Reclusion perpetua, reclusion temporal, prision mayor, prision correccional
and arresto mayor.

Article 87: Destierro.

Article 88: Arresto menor.

Title Four: Extinction of Criminal Liability

Chapter 1: Total Extinction of Criminal Liability

Article 89: How criminal liability is totally extinguished.

Article 90: Prescription of crime.

Article 91: Computation of prescription of offenses.

Article 92: When and how penalties prescribe.

Article 93: Computation of the prescription of penalties.

Chapter 2: Partial Extinction of Criminal Liability

Article 94: Partial Extinction of criminal liability.

Article 95: Obligation incurred by person granted conditional pardon.

Article 96: Effect of commutation of sentence.

Article 97: Allowance for good conduct.

Article 98: Special Time allowance for loyalty.

Article 99: Who grants time allowances.

Title Five: Civil Liability

Chapter 1: Person Civilly Liable for Felonies

Article 100: Civil liability of a person guilty of felony.

Article 101: Rules regarding civil liability in certain cases.

Article 102: Subsidiary civil liability of innkeepers, tavernkeepers and proprietors of

establishments.

Article 103: Subsidiary civil liability of other persons.

Chapter 2: What Civil Liability includes.

Article 104: What is included in civil liability.

Article 105: Restitution; How made

Article 106: Reparation; How made

Article 107: Indemnification; What is included.

Article 108: Obligation to make restoration, reparation for damages, or indemnification

for consequential damages and actions to demand the same; Upon whom it devolves.

Article 109: Share of each person civilly liable.

Article 110: Several and subsidiary liability of principals, accomplices and accessories of
a felony; Preference in payment.

Article 111: Obligation to make restitution in certain cases.

Chapter 3: Extinction and Survival of Civil Liability

Article 112: Extinction of civil liability.

Article 113: Obligation to satisfy civil liability.

 The Revised Penal Code of the Philippines

(Codals for Criminal Law I and Criminal Procedure)

BOOK 2: CRIMES AND PENALTES

Title One: Crimes against National Security and the Law of Nations

Chapter 1: Crimes against National Security

Section 1: Treason and espionage

Article 114: Treason.

Article 115: Conspiracy and proposal to commit treason; Penalty.

Article 116: Misprision of treason.

Article 117: Espionage.

Section 2: Provoking war and disloyalty in case of war

Article 118: Inciting to war or giving motives for reprisals.

Article 119: Violation of neutrality.

Article 120: Correspondence with hostile country.

Article 121: Flight to enemy country.

Section 3: Piracy and mutiny on the high seas

Article 122: Piracy in general and mutiny on the high seas.

Article 123: Qualified piracy.

Title Two: Crimes against the Fundamental Laws of the State

Chapter 1: Arbitrary Detention or Expulsion, Violation of Dwelling,

Prohibition, Interruption, and Dissolution of Peaceful Meetings and Crimes
against Religious Worship

Section 1: Arbitrary detention and expulsion

Article 124: Arbitrary detention.

Article 125: Delay in the delivery of detained persons to the proper judicial authorities.

Article 126: Delaying release.

Article 127: Expulsion.

Section 2: Violation of domicile

Article 128: Violation of domicile.

Article 129: Search warrants maliciously obtained and abuse in the service of those
legally obtained.
Article 130: Searching domicile without witnesses.

Section 3: Prohibition, interruption and dissolution of peaceful meetings

Article 131: Prohibition, interruption and dissolution of peaceful meetings.

Section 4: Crimes against religious worship

Article 132: Interruption of religious worship.

Article 133: Offending the religious feelings.

Title Three: Crimes against Public Order

Chapter 1: Rebellion, Sedition, and Disloyalty

Article 134: Rebellion or insurrection; How committed.

Article 134A: Coup d’etat; How committed.

Article 135: Penalty for rebellion, insurrection or coup d’etat.

Article 136: Conspiracy and proposal to commit coup d’etat, rebellion or insurrection.

Article 137: Disloyalty of public officers or employees.

Article 138: Inciting a rebellion or insurrection.

Article 139: Sedition; How committed.

Article 140: Penalty for sedition.

Article 141: Conspiracy to commit sedition.

Article 142: Inciting to sedition.

Chapter 2: Crimes against Popular Representation

Section 1: Crimes against legislative bodies and similar bodies

Article 143: Act tending to prevent the meeting of the Assembly and similar bodies.

Article 144: Disturbance of proceedings.

Section 2: Violation of Parliamentary Immunity

Article 145: Violation of parliamentary immunity.

Chapter 3: Illegal Assemblies and Associations

Article 146: Illegal assemblies.

Article 147: Illegal associations.

Chapter 4: Assaults upon, and Resistance and Disobedience to, Persons in

Authority and their Agents

Article 148: Direct assaults.

Article 149: Indirect assaults.

Article 150: Disobedience to summons issued by the National Assembly, its committees
or subcommittees, by the Constitutional Commissions, its committees, subcommittees
or divisions.

Article 151: Resistance and disobedience to a person in authority or the agents of such
person.

Article 152: Persons in authority and agents of persons in authority; Who shall be
deemed as such.

Chapter 5: Public Disorders

Article 153: Tumults and other disturbance of public orders; Tumultuous disturbance or
interruption liable to cause disturbance.

Article 154: Unlawful use of means of publication and unlawful utterances.

Article 155: Alarms and scandals.

Article 156: Delivery of prisoners from jails.

Chapter 6: Evasion of Service of Sentence

Article 157: Evasion of service of sentence.

Article 158: Evasion of service of sentence on the occasion of disorder, conflagrations,

earthquakes, or other calamities.

Article 159: Other cases of evasion of service of sentence.

Chapter 7: Commission of another Crime during Service of Penalty Imposed

for another Previous Offense’

Article 160: Commission of another crime during service of penalty imposed for another
offense; Penalty.

Title Four: Crimes against Public Interest

Chapter 1: Forgeries

Section 1: Forging the seal of the Government of the Philippines Islands, the
signature or stamp of the Chief Executive.

Article 161: Counterfeiting the great seal of the Government of the Philippine Islands,
forging the signature or stamp of the Chief Executive.

Article 162: Using forged signature or counterfeit seal or stamp.

Section 2: Counterfeiting Coins

Article 163: Making and importing and uttering false coins.

Article 164: Mutilation of coins; Importation and utterance of mutilated coins.

Article 165: Selling of false or mutilated coin, without connivance.

Section 3: Forging treasury or bank notes, obligations and securities;
importing and uttering false or forged notes, obligations and securities.

Article 166: Forging treasury or bank notes on other documents payable to bearer;
importing, and uttering such false or forged notes and documents.

Article 167: Counterfeiting, importing and uttering instruments not payable to bearer.

Article 168: Illegal possession and use of false treasury or banknotes and other
instrument of credit.

Article 169: How forgery is committed.

Section 4: Falsification of Legislative, Public, Commercial, and Private

Documents, and Wireless, Telegraphs, and Telephone Message

Article 170: Falsification of legislative documents.

Article 171: Falsification by public officer, employee or notary or ecclesiastic minster.

Article 172: Falsification by private individual and use of falsified documents.

Article 173: Falsification of wireless, cable, telegraphs and telephone messages, and use
of said falsified messages.

Section 5: Falsification of Medical Certificates, Certificated of Merit or

Services and the like

Article 174: False medical certificates, false certificates of merits or service, etc.

Article 175: Using false certificates.

Section 6: Manufacturing, importing and possession of instruments or

implements intended for the commission of falsification

Article 176: Manufacturing and possession of instruments or implements for falsification.

Chapter 2: Other Falsification

Section 1: Usurpation of authority, rank, title, and improper use of names,

uniforms and insignia.

Article 177: Usurpation of authority or official functions.

Article 178: Using fictitious name and concealing true name.

Article 179: Illegal use of uniform or insignia

Section 2: False Testimony

Article 180: False testimony against a defendant.

Article 181: False testimony favorable to the defendants.

Article 182: False testimony in civil cases.

Article 183: False testimony in other cases and perjury in solemn affirmation.
Article 184: Offering false testimony in evidence.

Chapter 3: Frauds

Section 1: Machinations, monopolies and combinations

Article 185: Machinations in public auctions.

Article 186: Monopolies and combinations in restraint of trade.

Section 2: Frauds in commerce and industry

Article 187: Importation and disposition of falsely marked articles or merchandise made
of gold, silver or other precious metals or their alloys.

Article 188: Subsisting and altering trade-mark, trade-names, or service marks.

Article 189: Unfair competition, fraudulent registration of trade-mark, trade-name or

service mark, fraudulent designation of origin, and false description.

Title Five: Crimes relative to Opium and other Prohibited Drugs

Article 190: Possession, preparation and use of prohibited drugs and maintenance of
opium dens.

Article 191: Keeper, watchman and visitor of opium den.

Article 192: Importation and sale of prohibited drugs.

Article 193: Illegal possession of opium pipe or other paraphernalia for the use of any
prohibited drug.

Article 194: Prescribing opium unnecessary for a patient.

Title Six: Crimes against Public Morals

Chapter 1: Gambling and Betting

Article 195: What acts are punishable in gambling.

Article 196: Importation, sale, and possession of lottery ticket or advertisements.

Article 197: Betting in sports contests.

Article 198: Illegal betting on horse race.

Article 199: Illegal cockfighting

Chapter 2: Offense against Decency and Good Customs

Article 200: Gravel scandal.

Article 201: Immoral doctrines, obscene publications and exhibitions and indecent
shows.

Article 202: Vagrants and prostitutes; penalty.

Title Seven: Crimes Committed by Public Officers

Chapter 1: Preliminary Provisions

Article 203: Who are public officers.

Chapter 2: Malfeasance and Misfeasance in Office

Section 1: Dereliction of duty.

Article 204: Knowingly rendering unjust judgement.

Article 205: Judgement rendered through negligence.

Article 206: Unjust interlocutory order.

Article 207: Malicious delay in administration of justice.

Article 208: Prosecution of offenses; negligence and tolerance.

Article 209: Betrayal of trust by an attorney or solicitor.

Section 2: Bribery

Article 210: Direct Bribery

Article 211: Indirect Bribery

Article 212: Corruption of public officials

Chapter 3: Frauds and Illegal Exactions and Transactions

Article 213: Frauds against the public treasury and similar offenses.

Article 214: Other frauds.

Article 215: Prohibited transactions.

Article 216: Possession of prohibited interest by a public officer.

Chapter 4: Malversation of Public Funds or Property

Article 217: Malversation of public funds or property; Presumption of malversation.

Article 218: Failure of accountable officer to render accounts.

Article 219: Failure of a responsible public officer to render accounts before leaving the
country.

Article 220: Illegal use of public funds or property.

Article 221: Failure to make delivery of public funds or property.

Article 222: Officers included in the preceding provisions.

Chapter 5: Infidelity of Public Officers

Section 1: Infidelity in the custody of prisoners

Article 223: Conniving with or consenting to evasion.

Article 224: Evasion through negligence.

Article 225: Escape of prisoner under the custody of a person not a public officer.

Section 2: Infidelity in the custody of document

Article 226: Removal, concealment or destruction of documents.

Article 227: Officer breaking seal.

Article 228: Opening of closed documents.

Section 3: Revelation of Secrets

Article 229: Revelation of secrets by an officer.

Article 230: Public officer revealing secrets of private individual.

Chapter 6: Other Offenses or Irregularities by Public Officers

Section 1: Disobedience, Refusal and Maltreatment

Article 231: Open disobedience.

Article 232: Disobedience to order of superior officers, when said order was suspended
by inferior officer.

Article 233: Refusal of assistance.

Article 234: Refusal to discharge elective office.

Article 235: Maltreatment of prisoners.

Section 2: Anticipation, prolongation and abandonment of the duties and

powers of public office

Article 236: Anticipation of duties of a public office.

Article 237: Prolonging performance of duties and powers.

Article 238: Abandonment of office or position.

Section 3: Usurpation of powers and unlawful appointments

Article 239: Usurpation of legislative powers.

Article 240: Usurpation of executive functions.

Article 241: Usurpation of judicial functions.

Article 242: Disobeying request for disqualification.

Article 243: Orders or requests by executive officers to any judicial authority.

Article 244: Unlawful appointments.

Section 4: Abuses against chastity

Article 245: Abuses against chastity; Penalties.

Title Eight: Crimes against Persons

Chapter 1: Destruction of Life

Section 1: Parricide, murder, homicide

Article 246: Parricide.

Article 247: Death or physical injuries inflicted under exceptional circumstances.

Article 248: Murder.

Article 249: Homicide.

Article 250: Penalty for frustrated parricide, murder or homicide.

Article 251: Death caused in a tumultuous affray.

Article 252: Physical injuries inflicted in a tumultuous affray.

Article 253: Giving assistance to suicide.

Article 254: Discharge of firearms.

Section 2: Infanticide and abortion

Article 255: Infanticide.

Article 256: Intentional abortion.

Article 257: Unintentional abortion.

Article 258: Abortion practiced by the woman herself or by her parents.

Article 259: Abortion practiced by a physician or midwife and dispensing of abortives.

Section 3: Duel

Article 260: Responsibility of participants in a duel.

Article 261: Challenging to a duel.

Chapter 2: Physical Injuries

Article 262: Mutilation.

Article 263: Serious physical injuries.

Article 264: Administering injurious substances or beverages.

Article 265: Less serious physical injuries.

Article 266: Slight physical injuries.

Title Nine: Crimes against Personal Liberty and Security

Chapter 1: Crimes against Liberty

Article 267: Kidnapping and serious illegal detention.

Article 268: Slight illegal detention.

Article 269: Unlawful arrest.

Section 2: Kidnapping of minor

Article 270: Kidnapping and failure to return a minor.

Article 271: Inducing a minor to abandon his home.

Article 272: Slavery

Article 273: Exploitation of child labor.

Article 274: Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debt.

Chapter 2: Crimes against Security

Section 1: Abandonment of helpless persons and exploitation of minors.

Article 275: Abandonment of person in danger and abandonment of one’s own victim.

Article 276: Abandoning a minor.

Article 277: Abandonment of minor by person entrusted with his custody; indifference
of parents.

Article 278: Exploitation of minors.

Article 279: Additional penalties for other offenses.

Section 2: Trespass to dwelling

Article 280: Qualified trespass to dwelling.

Article 281: Other forms of trespass.

Section 3: Threats and coercion

Article 282: Grave threats.

Article 283: Light threats.

Article 284: Bond for good behavior.

Article 285: Other light threats.

Article 286: Grave coercions.

Article 287: Light coercions.

Article 288: Other similar coercions; (Compulsory purchase of merchandise and

payment of wages by means of tokens.)

Article 289: Formation, maintenance and prohibition of combination of capital or labor

through violence or threats.
Chapter 3: Discovery and Revelation of Secrets

Article 290: Discovering secrets through seizure of correspondence.

Article 291: Revealing secrets with abused of office.

Article 292: Revelation of industrial secrets.

Title Ten: Crimes against Property

Chapter 1: Robbery in General

Article 293: Who are guilty of robbery.

Section 1: Robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons.

Article 294: Robbery with violence against or intimidation of persons; Penalties.

Article 295: Robbery with physical injuries, committed in an uninhabited place and by a
band, or with the use of firearm on a street, road or alley.

Article 296: Definition of a band and penalty incurred by the members thereof.

Article 297: Attempted and frustrated robbery committed under certain circumstances.

Article 298: Execution of deeds by means of violence or intimidation.

Section 2: Robbery by the use of force upon things

Article 299: Robbery in an inhabited house or public building or edifice devoted to

worship.

Article 300: Robbery in an uninhabited place and by a band.

Article 301: What is an inhabited house, public building or building dedicated to religious
worship and their dependencies.

Article 302: Robbery is an uninhabited place or in a private building.

Article 303: Robbery or cereals, fruits, or firewood n an uninhabited place or private

building.

Article 304: Possession of picklocks or similar tools.

Article 305: False keys.

Chapter 2: Brigandage

Article 306: Who are brigands; Penalty.

Article 307: Aiding and abetting a band of brigands.

Chapter 3: Theft

Article 308: Who are liable for theft.

Article 309: Penalties.

Article 310: Qualified theft.

Article 311: Theft of the property of the National Library and National Museum.

Chapter 4: Usurpation

Article 312: Occupation of real property or usurpation of real rights in property.

Article 313: Altering boundaries or landmarks.

Chapter 5: Culpable Insolvency

Article 314: Fraudulent insolvency.

Chapter 6: Swindling and Other Deceits

Article 315: Swindling (estafa).

Article 316: Other forms of swindling.

Article 317: Swindling a minor.

Article 318: Other deceits.

Chapter 7: Chattel Mortgage

Article 319: Removal, sale or pledge of mortgaged property.

Chapter 8: Arson and Other Crimes involving Destruction

Article 320: Destructive arson.

Article 321: Other forms of arson.

Article 322: Cases of arson not included in the preceding articles.

Article 323: Arson of property of small value.

Article 324: Crimes involving destruction.

Article 325: Burning one’s own property as means to commit arson.

Article 326: Setting fire to property exclusively owned by the offender.

Article 326A: In cases where death resulted as a consequence of arson.

Article 326B: Prima facie evidence of arson.

Chapter 9: Malicious Mischief

Article 327: Who are liable for malicious mischief.

Article 328: Special cases of malicious mischief.

Article 329: Other mischiefs.

Article 330: Damage and obstruction to means of communication.

Article 331: Destroying or damaging statues, public monuments or paintings.

Chapter 10: Exemption from Criminal Liability in Crimes against Property

Article 332: Persons exempt from criminal liability.

Title Eleven: Crimes against Chastity

Chapter 1: Adultery and Concubinage

Article 333: Who are guilty of adultery.

Article 334: Concubinage.

Chapter 2: Rape and Act of Lasciviousness

Article 335: When and how rape is committed.

Article 336: Acts of lasciviousness.

Chapter 3: Seduction, Corruption of Minors and White Slave Trade

Article 337: Qualified seduction.

Article 338: Simple seduction.

Article 339: Acts of lasciviousness with the consent of the offended party.

Article 340: Corruption of minors.

Article 341: White slave trade.

Chapter 4: Abduction

Article 342: Forcible abduction.

Article 343: Consented abduction.

Chapter 5: Provisions relative to the Preceding Chapters of Title Eleven

(Crimes against Chastity)

Article 344: Prosecution of the crimes of adultery, concubinage, seduction, abduction,

rape and acts of lasciviousness.

Article 345: Civil liability of persons guilty of crimes against chastity.

Article 346: Liability of ascendants, guardians, teachers, or other persons entrusted with
the custody of the offended party.

Title Twelve: Crimes against the Civil Status of Persons

Chapter 1: Simulation of Births and Usurpation of Civil Status

Article 347: Simulation of births, substitution of one child for another and concealment
or abandonment of a legitimate child.

Article 348: Usurpation of civil status.

Chapter 2: Illegal Marriages

Article 349: Bigamy

Article 350: Marriage contracted against provision of laws.

Article 351: Premature marriages.

Article 352: Performance of illegal marriage ceremony.

Title Thirteen: Crimes against Honor

Chapter 1: Libel

Section 1: Definition, forms, and punishment of this crime.

Article 353: Definition of libel.

Article 354: Requirement for publicity.

Article 355: Libel means by writing or similar means.

Article 356: Threatening to publish and offer to present such publication for a
compensation.

Article 357: Prohibited publication of acts referred to in the course of official

proceedings.

Article 358: Slander.

Article 359: Slander by deed.

Section 2: General provisions

Article 360: Persons responsible.

Article 361: Proof of truth.

Article 362: Libelous remarks.

Chapter 2: Incriminatory Machinations

Article 363: Incriminating innocent person.

Article 364: Intriguing against honor.

Title Fourteen: Quasi-Offenses

Sole Chapter: Criminal Negligence

Article 365: Imprudence and negligence.

Final Provisions

Article 366: Application of laws enacted prior to this Code.

Article 367: Repealing Clause.