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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