Text of the provision
Art. 260. Responsibility of participants in a duel. -The penalty of reclusion temporal shall be imposed upon any person who shall kill his adversary in a duel. If he shall inflict upon the latter physical injuries only, he shall suffer the penalty provided therefor, according to their nature. In any other case, the combatants shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor, although no physical injuries have been inflicted. The seconds shall in all events be punished as accomplices.
Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, Act No. 3815, as amended. Reproduced in full from the official enactment and verified against the LawPhil and ChanRobles renderings.
What this article means
A person who kills his adversary in a duel suffers reclusion temporal; if he only inflicts physical injuries, the penalty is the one set for those injuries. In any other case both combatants suffer arresto mayor even if nobody was hurt, and the seconds are always punished as accomplices.
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Related provisions
- Article 259 — Abortion By Physician Or Midwife.
- Article 265 — Less Serious Physical Injuries.
On this text. This article is reproduced as the Revised Penal Code enacted it, verified word-for-word against two independent sources. Republic Act No. 10951 (2017) revised the penalty amounts in many other articles of this Code; where an amount appears below it is the figure this article itself carries.
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