Friday, February 5, 2010

Exemption from Criminal Liability in Crimes Against Property

No criminal liability, but only civil liability shall result from the commission of the crime of theft, swindling, or malicious mischief committed or caused mutually by the following persons:

Spouses, ascendants and descendants, or relatives by affinity in the same line;

The widowed spouse with respect to the property which belonged to the deceased spouse before the same shall have passed into the possession of another; and

Brothers and sisters and brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, if living together.

The exemption established by this article shall not be applicable to strangers participating in the commission of the crime. (Art. 332, RPC) 

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