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The grant of moral damages, exemplary damages, attorney's fees, and litigation costs has basic reliance upon the following provisions of the Civil Code: Art. 2217. Moral damages include physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury.
As to the fourth requisite, Article 2219 of the Civil Code provides that moral damages may be awarded in the following instances: Article 2219. Moral damages may be recovered in the following and analogous cases: (1) A criminal offense resulting in physical injuries; (2) Quasi-delicts causing physical injuries;
When a person, claiming to be injured by a criminal offense, charges another with the same, for which no independent civil action is granted in this Code or any special law, but the justice of the peace finds no reasonable grounds to believe that a crime has been committed, or the prosecuting attorney refuses or fails to institute criminal ...
Apr 11, 2023 · Moral Damages. Article 2217. Moral damages include physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury.
The Court modifies the CA ruling. Moral damages; Instances when moral damages can be awarded in an action for breach of contract. Moral damages include physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury.
Article 2219 [80] of the Civil Code specifically states that moral damages may be recovered in cases of libel, slander, or defamation. The amount of moral damages that courts may award depends upon the set of circumstances for each case.
Oct 9, 2017 · Article 2217 of the Civil Code of the Philippines refer to moral damages as "physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury.
In an Information filed by the Assistant City Prosecutor of Manila, herein petitioner Johnny Garcia Yap (Yap) was charged with the crime of attempted murder, as defined and penalized under Article 248, in relation to Article 6 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC), as amended. The accusatory portion of the Information reads, thus:
The provisions of the new Civil Code on moral damages state: “Art. 2217. Moral damages include physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shocks, social humiliation, and similar injury.
Civil obligations arising from criminal offenses shall be governed by the penal laws, subject to the provisions of Article 2177, and of the pertinent provisions of Chapter 2, Preliminary Title, on Human Relations, and of Title XVIII of this Book, regulating damages.
