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Alternative circumstances
A. RELATIONSHIP
RELATIONSHIP
Under Art. 332 of the RPC, no criminal, but only civil, liability
shall result from commission of the crime of theft, swindling or
malicious mischief committed or caused mutually by spouses,
ascendants, and descendants, or relatives by affinity in the
same line; brothers and sisters and brothers-in-law and sistersin-law, if living together.
Relationship becomes actually an exempting circumstance
since there is no occasion to consider a mitigating or an
aggravating circumstance because there is no criminal liability.
RELATIONSHIP
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d)
RELATIONSHIP
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when the qualification given to the crime is derived from the relationship between the
offender and the offended party, it is neither mit