Text of the provision
Art. 317. Swindling a minor. -Any person who, taking advantage of the inexperience or emotions or feelings of a minor, to his detriment, shall induce him to assume any obligation or to give any release or execute a transfer of any property right in consideration of some loan of money, credit or other personal property, whether the loan clearly appears in the document or is shown in any other form, shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor and a fine of a sum ranging from 10 to 50 per cent of the value of the obligation contracted by the minor.
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
Taking advantage of a minor’s inexperience, emotions or feelings to induce him — to his own detriment — to assume an obligation, give a release, or transfer a property right in exchange for a loan of money, credit or personal property is punished by arresto mayor and a fine ranging from 10 to 50 per cent of the value of the obligation the minor took on.
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Related provisions
- Article 315 — Swindling (Estafa).
- Article 318 — Other Deceits.
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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