For less serious injuries in an affray where the culprit is unidentified, violent participants are punished by arresto mayor (5-15 days).
Assisting suicide is punished by prision mayor, but if the helper does the killing, the penalty is reclusion temporal.
If assistance to suicide is provided but the act is not consummated, the penalty is arresto mayor.
Discharge of firearms at another person incurs prision correccional unless it qualifies as a higher crime.
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Killing a child less than three days old is infanticide, penalized like parricide or murder.
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Mother killing her child to conceal dishonor suffers prision mayor; grandparents suffer reclusion temporal.
Intentional abortion using violence upon the pregnant woman is punished by reclusion temporal.
Intentional abortion without consent is punished by prision mayor, while with consent is punished by prision correccional.
Causing an abortion unintentionally but through violence is punished by prision correccional.
Public officer usurping legislative powers by making rules beyond authority or attempting to repeal law.
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