Book Two — Crimes and penalties

Title Nine

Crimes against Personal Liberty and Security

• Crimes against Liberty

  Art. 267Kidnapping and serious illegal detentionAmended
• Art. 268Slight illegal detentionAmended
• Art. 269Unlawful arrestAmended
• Art. 270Kidnapping and failure to return a minorAmended
• Art. 271Inducing a minor to abandon his homeAmended
• Art. 272Slavery
• Art. 273Exploitation of child labor
• Art. 274Services rendered under compulsion in payment of debts

• Crimes against Security

  Art. 275Abandonment of persons in danger and abandonment of one's own victim
• Art. 276Abandoning a minorAmended
• Art. 277Abandonment of minor by person entrusted with his custody; Indifference of parentsAmended
• Art. 278Exploitation of minorsAmended
• Art. 279Additional penalties for other offenses
• Art. 280Qualified trespass to dwellingAmended
• Art. 281Other forms of trespassAmended
• Art. 282Grave threatsAmended
• Art. 283Light threats
• Art. 284Bond for good behavior
• Art. 285Other light threatsAmended
• Art. 286Grave coercionsAmended
• Art. 287Light coercionsAmended
• Art. 288Other similar coercions; (Compulsory purchase of merchandise and payment of wages by means of tokensAmended
• Art. 289Formation, maintenance and prohibition of combination of capital or labor through violence or threatsAmended

• Discovery and Revelation of Secrets

  Art. 290Discovering secrets through seizure of correspondenceAmended
• Art. 291Revealing secrets with abuse of officeAmended
• Art. 292Revelation of industrial secretsAmended

Consolidated by Alleba from the 1930 text of Act No. 3815 (Lawphil) and the amending Republic Acts in our library. Amendments made by Presidential Decrees, Batas Pambansa or executive orders are not yet included. For information and research only, and not legal advice. This text may not reflect later amendments. For certified copies, refer to the Official Gazette or the issuing agency.