Act No. 2017 — An Act Providing That the Word "Embezzlement" as Used in Section Forty of Act Numbered One Hundred and Eighty-Three, as Amended, Shall Be Construed to Include the Offense of "Estafa."

Act No. 2017 · Act · Approved January 26, 1911 · 2 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. The word "embezzlement" as used in section forty of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the City of Manila," as amended by section ten of Act Numbered Two hundred and sixty-seven, shall be construed to include the offense of "estafa" punished by the Penal Code.

Section 2

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, January 26, 1911.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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