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(P) L1.2: Intro to Law (Part 2) Flashcards

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Classification of law as to its purpose:
> This portion creates and defines rights and duties either private or public (e.g. contracts)

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Substantive Law

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Classification of law as to its purpose:
> Describes the manner/procedure on how we enforce rights and redress violations (e.g. extraprocedural/remedial law)

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Adjective Law

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Substantive or Adjective Law?
> Actions for the recovery of real property shall be filed with the Regional Trial Court of the region where the property belongs to

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Adjective (you’re explaining the procedure on how to perform the process)

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Classification of law as to its subject matter:
> This regulates the rights and duties between state and people

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Public Law or Criminal Law

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T or F: If a perpetrator disturbs the peace and order of state, then it disturbs private law

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False (public law)

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Classification of law as to its subject matter:
> Regulates relations of individuals

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Private Law

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T or F: Ignorance of the law can excuse some people from compliance

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False (it excuses NO ONE)

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T or F: Everyone is conclusively presumed to know the law

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True (because of the obligatory force of law)

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Reasons for Conclusive Presumption:
> Most lawyers cannot enforce laws due to their being unknown to many

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Social life impossibility

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Reasons for Conclusive Presumption:
> It is impossible to prove the contrary when a person claims ignorance of the law

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Proving the guilt is difficult

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Reasons for Conclusive Presumption:
> It is unthinkable to absolve those who do not know the law and increase the obligations of those who know it

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Absurdity

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Reasons for Conclusive Presumption:
> We carry a sense of duty so that our reason indicates what we have to do and in more complicated juridical relations, lawyers need to be consulted

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Conscience issues

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How a bill becomes a law:
> This is introduced by any member of the congress except some that must originate only in the lower chamber

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Bill

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How a bill becomes a law:
> What government body can introduce bills?

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Congress (both upper and lower chambers)

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How a bill becomes a law:
> This event involves the reading of the number and title of measures and its referral by the Senate President or Speaker to the committee

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First Reading

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T or F: Bills cannot be “killed” immediately during the first hearing

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False (the committee has the power to do it)

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How a bill becomes a law:
> Once reported out, the bill shall be scheduled for ________, where it will be scrutinized, debated upon, and amended when desired

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Second Reading

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How a bill becomes a law:
> The most important stage in passage of the bill

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Second Reading

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How a bill becomes a law:
> An approved bill for the second reading is printed and distributed at least how many days before the third reading?

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3 days

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How a bill becomes a law:
> On this event, the members merely register their votes and explain if they are allowed by the rules
> No further debate is allowed

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Third Reading

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How a bill becomes a law:
> Upon passing the bill from third reading, if it will be approved by the Second House, it will be submitted to the ________ for their consideration

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President

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How a bill becomes a law:
> The bill is enrolled when printed as INITIALLY approved by the _______

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Congress

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How a bill becomes a law:
> The bill is enrolled when printed as finally authenticated with signatures of the ________ or the ________ & ________

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Signatures of the Senate President OR Speaker & Secretary

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How a bill becomes a law:
> The bill is enrolled when printed as FINALLY approved by the _______

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President

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How a bill becomes a law:
> Although personal initiative is invalid, sponsorship from a member of the _____ is valid

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Congress

26
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Bills that revolve around tax, franchise, or budget must come from what chamber of congress?

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Lower (House of Representatives)

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T or F: If a bill originates from the lower chamber, it must be referred to the upper chamber

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True

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T or F: If a bill originates from the upper chamber, it must be referred to the lower chamber

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True

29
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Approval of bills can be found in what part of the Constitution?

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Article 6 , Section 27 of the 1987 Constitution

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Bills that came from congress are known as _______

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Enrolled Bills

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T or F: Before the President signs a bill, it must be signed by the Senate President, Speakers of the House, and Secretaries

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True

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When the President vetoes a law and brings it back to Congress, how many votes will it take to override the veto?

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2/3 of each house

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This term refers to a bill that is not good or does not benefit the majority

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Vetoes

34
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This term refers to certain provisions that can be changed

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Pocket Veto

35
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A bill is approved if the President did not act within ____ days after it was presented to him

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30

36
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This is the period wherein the president received the bill

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Reckoning Period

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When is a law effective?

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15 days after publication in the Gazette (or as otherwise provided by the law)

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T or F: All laws will be effective 15 days after publication UNLESS it is stated that the effectivity is immediate

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True

39
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The purpose of this is to give the general public adequate notice of the various laws which regulate their conduct and actions

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Publication (15 day period)

40
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“It would be height of injustice to punish or otherwise burden a citizen for the transgression of the law he had no notice of” what is the Latin phrase for this situation?

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“Ignorantia legis non excusat”

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T or F: The Executive branch may provide the usual 15 day publication period or shall be shortened or extended

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False (Legislative Branch)

42
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Refers to the act or process of discovering and expounding the meaning and intention of the authors of the law given that the case was not explicitly provided in the law

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Statutory Construction

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If there is ambiguity to the law in respect to language, then use an ________

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Intrinsic Aid (use of commas, grammar, wordings, titles, sentences, and punctuations)

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If ambiguity is the extent of the law and cannot be ascertained by intrinsic aid, use _______ instead and construe the law

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Extrinsic Aid (e.g. journals or history)

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T or F: Anyone can interpret the law, hence it is binding and conclusive to the courts

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False (anyone can interpret the law HOWEVER it is not conclusive nor is it binding to the courts)

46
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These refer to the following: Title, preamble, words, phrases and sentences, context, punctuation, headings and marginal notes, legislative definitions and interpretation clauses. All of these are found in the law itself.

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Intrinsic Aid

47
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These refer to the following:
Contemporaneous circumstances, policy, legislative history of the statute, contemporaneous or practical construction, executive construction, legislative construction and the construction of the bar and legal commentators.

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Extrinsic Aid

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T or F: The duty of the court is to interpret clearly stated laws

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False (if the laws are clearly stated, then they should already apply it, not interpret it)

49
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These are Latin words/phrases incorporated in the decision of the court to add elegance or emphasis

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Legal Maxims

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