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CRIM LAW POINTERS

General Points and Article 2

o Limitations on the power to enact penal legislation

Must be ENERAL IN APPLICATION

No E! POST "ACTO Law shall be passe#

- Ma$es criminal an act #one be%ore the passage o%law

- Aggra&ates a crime or ma$es it greater than it was

committe# No 'ILL O" ATTAIN(ER shall be passe#

- Legislati&e act which in)icts punishment without

*u#icial trial

o Characteristics o% Criminal Law

ENERALIT+

- Must be general in application, applies to all people

regar#less o% their se-, age, gen#er, belie%, race orcree#

TERRITORIALIT+

- Penal laws ha&e %orce an# e.ect within the

Philippine territor/

- 'ut has also e-tra0territorial unit