Full Title
AN ACT TO IMPOSE A MORE SEVERE PENALTY FOR THE CRIME OF THIEFT OF LARGE CATTLE.
Congress
Date of Approval
June 2, 1938
Other Details
Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance Type
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Official Gazette
Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 36 no. 80 page 1690 (7/2/1938)
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[ Commonwealth Act No. 273, June 03, 1938 ]
AN ACT TO IMPOSE A MORE SEVERE PENALTY FOR THE CRIME OF THEFT OF LARGE CATTLE.
Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines:SECTION 1. Article three hundred and ten of the Revised Penal Code is amended so as to read as follows:
"ART. 310. Qualified theft.—The crime of theft shall be punished by the penalties next higher in degree than those respectively specified in the next preceding, article, if committed by a domestice servant, or with grave abuse of confidence, or if the property stolen consists of coconuts or fish taken from a fishpond or fishery. The maximum period of the penalty prescribed in this article shall be imposed if the property stolen is large cattle."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.Approved, June 3, 1938.
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