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EVIDENCE
• By
• MARIO R.L. LUNA
• Professor of Law, College of Law, Polytechnic University of
the Philippines
• MCLE Lecturer: ACLEx/Centro Escolar University and
ACCESS/Adamson University
• Deputy City Prosecutor, Antipolo City
• Member: Prosecutors League of the Philippines; Tau Kappa
Phi Fraternity, Institute of Law, Far Eastern University; The
Phantoms Riders Club
SCOPE OF THE RULES OF EVIDENCE
• Hearsay excluded.
• Disputable presumptions:
• (1) A person is innocent of a crime;
• (2) Unlawful act was done with unlawful intent;
• (3) Evidence willfully suppressed would be
adverse if produced;
• (6) Money paid by one to another was due to
the latter;
• (7) A person found in possession of a thing
taken in the doing of a recent wrongful act is
the taker and the doer of the whole act;
otherwise, that things which a person
possesses, or exercises acts of ownership
over, are owned by him;
• (8) A person acting in a public office was
regularly appointed or elected to it;
• (9 That official duty has been regularly
performed;
• (10) Property acquired by a man and a
woman who are capacitated to marry each
other without the benefit of marriage and
who live exclusively with each other as
husband and wife, have been obtained by
their joint efforts;
• (11) In cases of cohabitation by a man and a
woman who are not capacitated to marry
each other and who acquired property
through their actual joint contribution of
money or property, their shares are equal.
• Offer of evidence
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