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• Legislative intent
• Legislative purpose
• Power to construe/Limitations
The legislature has no power to overrule the interpretation made by the Court:
Meaning and Exceptions
Law, Defined/Purposes/Characteristics/Sources/Classification
Statutes: Definition/classification
PARTS OS STATUTE
PREAMBLE-
TITLE OF THE STATUTE-
PURPOSES OF TITLE REQUIREMENT
▪ hodge podge or log-rolling legislation.
Hodge-Podge/definition
▪ Riders/definition
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EFFECT OF INSUFFICIENCY OF TITLE
o IN RE CUNANAN
ENACTING CLAUSE
BODY OF THE STATUTE
SEPARABILITY CLAUSE
REPEALING CLAUSE
EFFECTIVITY CLAUSE/General Rule/Exception
o La Bugal-b’laan Tribal Association, Inc. vs Ramos 421 SCRA 148
Validity of statutes
Presumption of constitutionality:
Judicial Power/definition
Test of constitutionality
RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
• Legislative intent
• Legislative purpose
• Legislative meaning
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• Matters inquired into in construing a statute
• Power to construe
o A moot and academic case
o Endencia v. David 93 Phil. 699
AIDS TO CONSTUCTION
Intrinsic Aids
• City of Baguio, ET AL. vs. PIO R. MARCOS, ET AL.G.R. No. L-26100 February 28, 1969
Sanchez, J.
People v. Echavez
G.R. Nos. L-47757-61. January 28, 1980
Extrinsic aids
• Fabella v. CA
• Bocobo v Estanislao
Legislative history
Peope v. Manantan
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Change in phraseology by amendment
Amendment by deletion –
Adopted statutes
Conditions at the time of enactment
History of the time
Contemporaneous construction
CHARTERED BANK EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION V. OPLE, GR. No. L-44717, 28 August 1985
Enrique v. CA
ABS-CBN v. CTA
Legislative interpretation
Legislative approval
Reenactment
Stare decisis –