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Act No. 3815 (The Revised Penal Code) Article 333

Act No. 3815 (The Revised Penal Code) Article 333

Who are guilty of adultery.

Article 333

ART. 333. Who are guilty of adultery.—Adultery is committed by any married woman who shall have sexual inter-course with a man not her husband and by the man who has carnal knowledge of her, knowing her to be married, even if the marriage be subsequently declared void. Adultery shall be punished by prision correccional in its medium and maximum periods. If the person guilty of adultery committed this offense while being abandoned without justification by the offended spouse, the penalty next lower in degree than that provided in the next preceding paragraph shall be imposed.

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