Activity 1

That branch of public substantive law which defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment.

• Civil Law

• Political Law

• Criminal Law

• Commercial Law

Constitution is defined by Cooley as:

• a body of statutory, administrative and political provisions by which the three branches of government are defined

• a body of rules and maxims in accordance with which the powers of sovereignty are habitually exercised

• a body of rules and edicts emanating from the rulings of courts and written guidelines of the executive and the legislature by which government is governed

• a body of interpretations and rules by which the three branches of government are judged for purposes of sovereign compliance with good corporate governance.

Which phrase best completes the statement - The starting point of the principle of separation of powers is the assumption of the division of the functions of government into three distinct classes:

• the bill of rights, state policies, and social justice and human rights;

• the accountability of public officers, the constitutional commissions, and the national economy and patrimony;

• the self-executing provisions, the non-self-executing provisions, and the self-evident social justice provisions;

• the executive, the legislative, and the judicial.

The doctrine of stare decisis expresses the rule that judicial decisions applying or interpreting the law shall form part of the legal system of the Philippines.

• Article 8 of the Civil Code

• Article 19 of the Civil Code

• Article 6 of the Civil Code

• Article 2 of the Civil Code

Forum Non Conveniens means that a court has discretionary authority to decline jurisdiction over a cause of action when it is of the view that the action may be justly and effectively adjudicated elsewhere.

• TRUE

• FALSE

___ is the fitness to be the subject of legal relations. It is inherent in every natural person and is lost only through death.

• Capacity to Act

• Juridical Capacity

As a rule, All statutes are to be construed as having only prospective operation

• TRUE

• FALSE

There is an attempt when the offender commences the commission of a felony directly by overt acts, and does not perform all the acts of execution which should produce the felony by reason of some cause or accident other than his own spontaneous desistance.

• TRUE

• FALSE

As a general rule, the law of the place where a contract is made or entered into governs with respect to its nature and validity, obligation and interpretation. (Under the doctrine of lex loci contractus)

• TRUE

• FALSE

Dual citizenship arises when, as a result of the concurrent application of the different laws of two or more states, a person is simultaneously considered a national by those states and is involuntary. On the other hand, dual allegiance refers to simultaneously owes by some positive and voluntary act, loyalty to two or more states

• TRUE

• FALSE