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Article 364. Intriguing against honor. - The penalty of arresto menor or fine not exceeding  Twenty thousand pesos (P20,000) shall be imposed for any intrigue which has for its principal purpose to blemish the honor or reputation of a person.

Intriguing Against Honor

This felony is committed by any person who shall make any intrigue which has for its principal purpose to blemish the honor or reputation of another person. It is committed by saying to others an unattributable thing, that if it were said to the person himself, slander is committed.

Intriguing against honor refers to any scheme or plot designed to blemish the reputation of another by means w/c consist of some trickery.

The intrigue is resorted to to blemish the honor or reputation of another person.

Must be committed by means of some tricky and secret plot, and not gossiping, which falls under defamation.

Where the source or author of derogatory information cannot be determined and the defendant passes it to others, the defendant’s act is one of intriguing against honor; if it came from a definite source, the crime is slander.

Intriguing against honor is referred to as gossiping: the offender, without ascertaining the truth of a defamatory utterance, repeats the same and passes it on to another, to the damage of the offended party.

This crime is committed by any person who shall make any intrigue which has for its principal purpose to blemish the honor or reputation of another person.


intriguing against honor
Intriguing Against Honor