DEFINITIONS

robbery or forcible depredation on the high seas, without lawful

Piracy authority an done with animo furandi and in the spirit and intention
of universal hostility.
Unlawful resistance to a superior officer, or the raising of
Mutiny commotions and disturbances on board a ship against the authority
of its commander.
Such facts and circumstances which could lead a reasonable discreet
Probable and prudent man to believe that an offense has been committed and
cause that the object sought in connection with the offense are in the place
sought to be searched.
Sedition Raising of commotions or disturbances in the State.
Medley of discordant voices, a mock serenade of discordant noises
Charivari
made on kettles, tins, horns, etc., designed to annoy and insult.
A special aggravating circumstance where a person, after having
Quasi-
been convicted by final judgement shall commit a new felony before
recidivism
beginning to serve such sentence, or while serving the same.
Is committed by a person who knowingly and willfully procures
Subornation
another to swear falsely and the witness suborned does testify
of perjury
under circumstances rendering him guilty of perjury.
Misfeasance Improper performance of some act which might lawfully be done.
Malfeasance Performance of some act which ought not to be done.
Nonfeasance Omission of some act which ought to be performed
Final consideration and determination of a court of competent
Judgment jurisdiction upon the matters submitted to it, in an action or
proceeding.
An order which is issued by the court between the commencement
Interlocutory and the end of a suit or action and which decides some point or
order matter, but which, however, is not final decision of the matter in
issue.
Malversation Embezzlement
Unlawful killing of any person which is not parricide or infanticide,
provided that any of the following circumstances is present:
a. Treachery
b. In consideration of a price or reward
Murder
c. Inundation, fire, explosion etc
d. On occasion of calamities.
e. Evident premeditation
f. Cruelty
Unlawfully killing of an y person, which is neither parricide, murder,
Homicide
not infanticide.
The killing of any child less than 3 days of age, whether the killer is
Infanticide
the parent or grandfather, any other relative of the child or stranger.
Willful killing of the fetus in the uterus, or the violent expulsion of
Abortion the fetus from the maternal womb which results in the death of the
fetus
Formal or regular combat previously concerted between two parties
in the presence of two or more seconds of lawful age on each side,
Duel
who make the selection of arms and fix all the other conditions of
the fight.
Mutilation Lopping and clipping off of some part of the body
Deformity Physical ugliness, permanent and definite abnormality
 Dwelling Aby building or structure exclusively devoted for rest and comfort
place
Includes any human conduct which although not productive of some
Unjust
physical or material harm would, however, unjustly annoy or vex an
vexation
innocent person.
Genuine keys stolen from the owner or any keys other than those
False Keys intended by the owner for use in the lock forcibly opened by the
offender
All interior courts, corrals, warehouses, granaries or inclosed places
Dependencies contiguous to the building or edifice, having an interior entrance
connected therewith and which form part of the whole
Crime committed by more than three armed persons who form a
band of robbers for the purpose of committing robbery in the
Brigandage highway or kidnapping persons for the purpose extortion or to
obtain ransom or for any other purpose to be attained by means of
force and violence.
Committed by any person who, with intent to gain but without
Theft violence against or intimidation of persons nor force upon things,
shall take personal property of another without the latter’s consent
is the act of any person who, with intent to gain for himself or for
another, shall buy, receive, possess, keep, acquire, conceal, sell or
dispose of, or shall buy and sell, or in any other manner deal in any
Fencing
article, item, object or anything of value which he knows, or should
be known to him, to have been derived from the proceeds of the
crime of robbery or theft.
Juridical Possession which gives the transferee a right over the thing which
Possession the transferee may set up even against the owner
Chattel a mortgage on a movable item of property.
Mortgage
Arson Malicious destruction of property by fire
Malicious Willful damaging of another’s property for the sake of causing
Mischief damage due to hate, revenge or other evil motive
Abduction Taking away of a woman with lewd designs
Offense of injuring a person’s character, fame or reputation through
Defamation
false and malicious statements
Clause in the indictment or other pleading containing an averment
Innuendo
which is explanatory of some preceding word or statement
while in general every discreditable imputation publicly made is
deemed false, because every man is presumed innocent until his
Doctrine of
guilt is judicially proved, and every false imputation is deemed
Fair
malicious, nevertheless, when the discreditable imputation is
Comment
directed against a public person in his public capacity, it is not
necessarily actionable
Any unlawful extortion of money by threats of accusation or
Blackmail
exposure
Slander Oral defamation
Slander by Crime against honor which is committed by performing any act
deed which casts dishonor, discredit, or contempt upon another person
consists in voluntarily, but without malice, doing or failing to do an
act from which material damage results by reason of inexcusable
Reckless lack of precaution on the part of the person performing or failing to
imprudence perform such act, taking into consideration his employment or
occupation, degree of intelligence, physical condition and other
circumstances regarding persons, time and place