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The Civil Code governs private law in the Philippines, including obligations and contracts, succession, torts and damages, property. It was enacted in 1950. Book I of the Civil Code, which governed marriage and family law, was supplanted by the Family Code in 1987. [ 2]
According to the Rules of the Senate, [1] the committee handles all matters relating to the conduct, rights, privileges, safety, dignity, integrity and reputation of the Senate and its members. The committee receives and hears ethics complaints against a senator filed by either another senator, [2] a government official, [3] or a Filipino citizen.
The Professional Regulation Commission, ( Filipino: Komisyon sa Regulasyon ng mga Propesyon) otherwise known as the PRC, is a three-man commission attached to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Its mandate is to regulate and supervise the practice of the professionals (except lawyers, who are handled by the Supreme Court of the ...
The following table lists Philippine laws which have been mentioned in Wikipedia, or are otherwise notable. Only laws passed by Congress and its preceding bodies are listed here; presidential decrees and other executive issuances which may otherwise carry the force of law are excluded for the purpose of this table.
The Philippine House Committee on Ethics and Privileges, or House Ethics and Privileges Committee is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives. Jurisdiction [ edit ] As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction is on the duties, conduct, rights, privileges and immunities, dignity, integrity and reputation of ...
Civil law. ( Private law) Status: In force. The Civil Code of the Philippines is the product of the codification of private law in the Philippines. It is the general law that governs family and property relations in the Philippines. It was enacted in 1950, and remains in force to date with some significant amendments. [citation needed]
The Calamba Sugar Central sugar mill on Luzon in 1929 Central Aucarera de La Carlota (a sugar mill). Sugar became the most important [according to whom?] agricultural export of the Philippines between the late eighteenth century and the mid-1970s because of two main reasons: 1) foreign exchange earned and 2) it was the basis of wealth accumulation of some Filipino elite at that time.
The Code of Rajah Kalantiaw was a supposed legal code in the epic history Maragtas that is said to have been written in 1433 by Datu Kalantiaw, a chief on the island of Negros in the Philippines. It is now generally accepted by historians that the documents supporting the existence and history of the code, according to some sources, “appear ...