The Origin of Santa Claus

In pre-Christian Rome, the emperors accountable their best abhorred citizens to accompany offerings and ability during the Saturnalia (in December) and Kalends (in January). Later, this ritual broadcast to accommodate gift-giving amid the accepted populace. The Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian acidity by re-rooting it in the declared gift-giving of Santa Claus. 

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Capital Punishment

Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the killing of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from Latin capitalis, literally "regarding the head" (Latin caput). Hence, a capital crime was originally one punished by the severing of the head.

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“ZONA”

November 25, 1984, a contingent of more than two hundred Philippine marines raided the compound occupied by Rizal Alih and his group at Gov. Alvarez street, Zamboanga City, in search of loose firearms, ammunition and other explosives. The soldiers could have easily obtained a search warrant from any of the ten civil courts then open and functioning in Zamboanga City. But they instead simply barged into the beleaguered premises on the verbal order of their superior officers.

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Searches and Seizures

Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution provides: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizure of whatever nature and for any purpose shall be inviolable, and no search warrant or warrant of arrest shall issue except upon probable cause to be determined personally by the judge after examination under oath or affirmation of the complainant and the witnesses he may produce and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized."

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Foreign Judgements

There are instances when a Filipino who is residing in the Philippines, or a Philippine corporation whose business activities are confined locally, are sued abroad, say, for collection of a sum of money or for damages. Suppose the foreign court renders judgment against the Filipino individual or corporation but the defendant does not have any assets in the foreign country, may the foreign judgment be enforced here in the Philippines?

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