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Legal Medicine (Part 4)

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True or False: Pregnancy is a ground for suspension of the execution of death sentence in a woman
True
True or False: A conceived child may exercise civil rights
True
True or False: concealment of the woman that she is pregnant at the time of marriage is a ground for annulment
True
Test wherein if the organs float and air bubbles are liberated to the surface water, breathing has taken place
Stomach Bowel or
Floatation Test or
Breslau Second life Test
Test based on the concept that the disappearance of the gelatinous embryonic connective tissue in the middle ear is a sign of birth
Wredin Test
True or False: Infanticide is most often committed by the father
False (mother)
Civil status of the child in relation to its mother or father
Filiation
Legitimacy of the child is established if the birth took place after ___ days following the celebration of marriage or within __ days following its dissolution
180 days
300 days
Process by which a child born out of lawful wedlock are by fiction of law considered legitimate by subsequent valid marriage of the person
Legitimation
True or False: The effects of legitimation shall retroact to the time of the child's birth
True
True or False: Those who have legitimate, legitimated, acknowledged natural children by legal fiction can adopt
False (cannot?)
An action for legal separation shall be filed within __ from the time of the occurrence of the cause
5 years
Physical incapacity of either sex to allow or grant the other legitimate sexual gratification
Impotence
Loss of power of procreation and is absolutely independent of whether or not impotence is present
Sterility
Is the below-normal intellectual functioning which originates from the arrest or incomplete development of the mind
Mental deficiency
Persistent inability through mental causes to adapt oneself to the ordinary environment
Sociological Insanity
Prolonged departure of the individual from his natural mental state arising from bodily disease
Medical Insanity
Type of Insanity: Relation of a person and the particular act which is the subject of judicial investigation
Legal Insanity
True or False: Impotence may be a defense in rape
True
True or False: Impotence may be a ground for annulment of marriage
True
True or False: Impotence may be a cause to the development of abnormal sexual behaviour
True
True or False: Insanity exempts a person from criminal liability
True
Early rule of insanity that states that a person is exempted from criminal liability if he is totally deprived of his understanding and memory and knows no more than an infant, a brute, or a wild beast of what he is doing
Wild Beast Rule
Rule that states that a defense on the ground of insanity can be proven if the accused was labouring under such defect of reason as not to know the nature and quality of the act or if he did know, he did not know that it was wrong
McNaghten Rule
Rule that states that a person is considered insane when mental disease has rendered him incapable of restraining himself, although he understands what he is doing and knows it is wrong
Irresistible Impulse Rule
Rule that states that the accused is not criminally responsible if his act was the product of mental disease or mental defect
Durham Rule
Rule that states that if it is proven that at the time of committing the prohibited act the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked substantial capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law which he has violated
Currens Rule
Rule that states that a person is not responsible for his criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks essential capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law
American Law Institute Rule
Classical Classification of Mental Deficiency: IQ of 0-20
Idiot
Classical Classification of Mental Deficiency: 21-40
Imbecile
Classical Classification of Mental Deficiency: 41-70
Feeble Minded
IQ of Profound Intellectual Disability
<20
IQ of Severe Intellectual Disability
20-35
IQ of Moderate Intellectual Disability
36-51
IQ of Mild Intellectual Disability
52-67
Classical Classes of Mental deficiency that are exempting circumstances to criminal responsibility
Idiocy and Imbecility
Classical Classof Mental deficiency that is a mitigating circumstance to criminal responsibility
Feeble mindedness
The desire to have continuous use of the drug but with the capacity to refrain physically from using it
Drug Habituation
Multiple pigmented punctured marks along the course of the superficial veins in opium addiction
Main liner
Scars of previous subcutaneous abscesses also along the course of the superficial veins
Skin popper
Drug with a slang name of red devil
Secobarbital
Drug with a slang name of yellow jackets, nemmies
Pentobarbital (Nembutal)
Drug with a slang name of blue heavens or blue dragons
Amobarbital
Drug with a slang name of purple heart
Phenobarbital
True or False: Intoxication is an alternative circumstance to criminal liability
True
True or False: Contracts agreed to in a state of drunkenness are voidable
True
Blood alcohol mg%: pleasant clearing of the head
10 mg%
Blood alcohol mg%: physical feeling of well-being
20 mg%
Blood alcohol mg%: increased self-confidence; decreased inhibitions, diminution of attention, judgement and control
50 mg%
Blood alcohol mg%: some mental confusion, incompetency, decreased inhibitions, loss of critical judgement, impairment of memory and comprehension
100 mg%
Blood alcohol mg%: disorientation, mental confusion, dizziness, sensory disturbances, decreased sense of pain, slurred speech, exaggerated emotions
150-300 mg%
Blood alcohol mg%: apathy, general inertia, decreased response to stimuli, impaired consciousness, sleep or stupor
300 mg%
Blood alcohol mg%: complete unconsciousness, coma, depressed or abolished reflexes, embarrassment of circulation and respiration, incontinence of urine and feces
400 mg%
BAL %: unfit to drive motor cars
0.1-0.15%
The whole body may have a shrunken appearance in poisoning from this chemical
Acute Arsenic Poisoning
Rigor mortis sets in early and persists longer than usual, skin is bright pink in color and face is pale in poisoning from this chemical
Hydrocyanic poisoning
Possession of the following has a penalty of life imprisonment to death
≥ 10 g opium, morphine, heroin, cocaine or cocaine hydrochloride, marijuana resin or marijuana resin oil, others (MDA, PMA, TMA, LSD, GHB)
≥ 50g methamphetamine HCl
≥ 500 g marijuana
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