Crimes Against Civil

Status of a Person
Simulation of births, substitution of one child for another and concealment or abandonment
of a legitimate child

-Any person who conceals or abandons any legitimate child with intent to cause such child to
lose its civil status is liable for this crime.

Usurpation of Civil Status

-Any person who shall usurp the civil status of another, should he do so for the purpose of
defrauding the offended part or his heirs will be liable for this crime.
Illegal
Marriages
Bigamy
- is committed by any person who contracts a second or
subsequent marriage before the former marriage has been
legally dissolved, or before the absent spouse has been
declared presumptively dead by means of a judgment
rendered in the proper proceedings.
Marriage contracted against provisions of laws shall be imposed
upon any person who, have not been complied with or that the
marriage is in disregard of a legal impediment.

Premature marriages are committed by any widow who marry

within three hundred and one day from the date of the death of
her husband, or before having delivered if she has been pregnant
at the time of his death.
Performance of illegal marriage ceremony

Priests or ministers of any religious denomination or sect,

or civil authorities who perform or authorize any illegal
marriage ceremony shall be punished in accordance with
the provisions of the Marriage Law.
Crimes Against
Honor
 LIBEL

-is public and malicious imputation of a crime, or of a vice or defect, real or imaginary, or any
act, omission, condition, status, or circumstance tending to cause the dishonor, discredit, or
contempt of a natural or juridical person, or to blacken the memory of one who is dead. Libel
committed by means of writing, printing, lithography, engraving, radio, phonograph, painting,
theatrical exhibition, cinematographic exhibition, or any similar means.

SLANDER OR ORAL DEFAMATION

-Defamation is the issuance of a false statement about another person, which causes that
person to suffer harm. Slander involves the making of defamatory statements by a transitory
(non-fixed) representation, usually an oral (spoken) representation
Typically, the elements of a cause of action for defamation
include:

1. A false and defamatory statement concerning another;

2. The unprivileged publication of the statement to a third
party (that is, somebody other than the person defamed by
the statement);
3. If the defamatory matter is of public concern, fault
amounting at least to negligence on the part of the publisher;
and
4. Damage to the plaintiff.
Quasi
Offenses
Negligence is lack of foresight or deficiency of perception. Proper
attention and diligence in foreseeing wrongful acts are needed by the
midwife to avoid committing this offence.

Types of Negligence

1. Contractual Negligence -is breach of contract. Any

failure of the midwife to carry out existing or pre-
existing contract may result to this offense.

2. Civil Negligence -is failure to perform the duty

carefully in all human acts.

3. Criminal Negligence -is the negligence that resulted

to commission of a crime.
Imprudence- is lack of judgment or act of carelessness.

Simple Imprudence- is lack of precautions displayed in

any action that resulted damage that do not result to clear
danger.

Reckless Imprudence- is voluntary action but without

malice, doing or failing to do an act from which material
damage results by reason of inexcusable lack of precaution
on the part of the person performing or failing to perform
such act, taking into consideration his employment and
occupation, degree, intelligence, physical condition and
other circumstances regardless of persons, time and place.
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