CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE

DEFINITIONS and TERMS

1. Dolo – which an act performed with deliberate intent to commit felony.

2. Sedition – is committed by person who rise publicly and tumultuously in order to attain
by force, intimidation, or by other means outside of legal methods, any of the following
objects.
3. Robbery – any person who with intent to gain, shall take any personal property belonging
to another, by means of violence or intimidation of any person, or using force upon
anything shall be guilty of robbery.
4. Conspiracy –
5. Indirect Assault – any person who shall make use of force or intimidation upon any
person coming to the aid of authorities or their agents on occasion of the commission of
any of the crimes defined in the next preceding article.
6. Expulsion – any public officer or employee who, not being thereunto authorized by law,
shall expel any person from the Philippine Islands or shall compel such person to change
his residence.
7. Aberracio Ictus – “Mistake in a blow” when the offender intending to do an injury to one
person actually inflicts it on another.
8. Material Evidence – tends to prove the fact in issue as that issue is determined by the
rules of substantive law and pleadings.
9. Error in Personae – “Mistake in the identity of the victim”.
10. Jurisprudence – is that practical science that investigates the natures, origins,
developments and functions of law.
11. Motive – is the moving power which impels one to action for a definite result.
12. Mala Inse – is an act or omission punishable by the Revised Penal Code
13. Treason – any person who, owing allegiance to the Government of the Philippine Islands,
not being a foreigner, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them
aid of comfort within the Philippine Islands or elsewhere.
14. Adultery – is committed by any married woman who shall have a sexual intercourse with
a man not her husband and by man who has carnal knowledge of her knowing her to
married, even if the marriage be subsequently declared void.
15. Responsibility -
16. Nullum crimen nulla poena sine lege
17. Act
18. Coup d’etat
19. Rebutting Evidence
20. Grave Scandal
21. Concubinage
22. Culpa
23. Search Warrant
24. Infraction of Law
25. Commulative Evidence
26. Evidence
27. Omission
28. Rebellion
29. Guilt
30. Mistake in Facts
31. Felonies
32. Imputability
33. Prima Facie Evidence
34. Violence of Domicile
35. Real Evidence
36. Indirect Bribery
37. Malicious Theft
38. Impossible Crime
39. Preater Intentionem
40. Theft
41. Overact
42. Criminal Law
43. Arrest
44. Act of Lasciviousness
45. Parricide
46. Complaint
47. Relevant Evidence
48. Actus mi invite factus non est meus actus
49. Crime
50. Mala Prohibita
51. Dwelling
52. Actus non facit reum, nisi mens set rea
53. Law
54. Expert Evidence