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Exception to the Pari

delicto Rule
- It will not apply if the enforcement
of application will violate an avowed
fundamental policy or public interest
De Los Santos vs. Roman Catholic
Church
What cannot be done directly-cannot
be done indirectly –
• It is a settled proposition of law that what
cannot be done directly, is not permissible to
be done obliquely, meaning thereby, whatever
is prohibited by law to be done, cannot legally
be effected by an indirect and circuitous
contrivance.
• An authority cannot be permitted to evade a
law by "shift or contrivance
Tawang Multi-Purpose Cooperative v.
La Trinidad Water District
G.R. No. 166471
No penalty for the compliance of the
law
• Person who complies with the law cannot by
implication, be penalized thereby.
Quimpo vs. Mendoza
• G.R. No. L-33052

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