STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION

Chapter 1 –
A. In General
1. What is the primary question in studying statutory construction?
2. What are laws in its jural and concrete sense?
3. What are laws in its jural and generic sense?
4. What are statutes in general?
5. What are the two implications statutes?
6. What is a public statute?
7. What is a private statute?
8. What are the classifications of statutes?
9. What is a general statute?
10. What is a special statute?
11. What is a local statute?
12. What are the durations of statutes?
13. What are the applications of statutes?
14. What are forms of statutes?
15. What are statutes identified as Public Acts?
16. What are statues identified as Commonwealth Acts?
17. What are statues identified as Republic Acts?

B. Enactment of Statutes
18. What is legislative power?
19. What is the function of the House of Representatives?
20. What is the function of the Senate?
21. What are the rules required in enacting a law?
22. What is a bill?
23. What are bills that originate exclusively from the House of Representatives?
24. Explain the steps in the passage of bill into law.
25. In the passage of a bill, which reading that does not allow amendments?
26. What is the exception in the passage of a bill into law?
27. What is the function of the Conference Committees?
28. Who is the third body of the legislature?
29. What are the 3 versions of bill?
30. What is the requirement before a bill becomes a law from the Conference Committees?
31. What is the required vote from both houses before a bill becomes a law considering that
the President rejected the bill?
32. What are the requirements for a bill passed the first time?
 33. When the does the law making process end?
34. How is a bill authenticated before its submission to the president?
35. What is a journal?
36. Where does the president communicate his approval or veto?
37. What are the three ways that a bill passed by Congress becomes a law?

C. Parts of Statutes
38. Which laws generally have preambles?
39. What is a preamble?
40. What is the constitutional requirement to the title of statute?
41. What are the dual limitations provided by the Constitution in relation to the title of the
statute?
42. What is the purpose of the title requirement?
43. What are the aims of constitutional requirement?
44. What is an intrinsic aid of statutory construction?
45. When does the title requirement do not apply?
46. What happens to a statute if it does not satisfy the constitutional requirement?
47. What the enacting clause?
48. What is the body of statute?
49. What is the separability clause?
50. What is the repealing clause?
51. What is the effectivity clause?
52. What is the power of the senate in relation to House Bills?
53. What are the four phases of budget process?
54. What is an appropriation bill?
55. Who has the “power of the purse”?
CHAPTER 2 – Construction and Interpretation
A. Nature and Purpose
56. What is construction?
57. What is interpretation?
58. What is the purpose of the rules of statutory construction?
59. What is the cardinal rule of statutory construction?
60. What is the true object in interpretation?
61. What is the purpose in interpretation?
62. What is intent?
63. What is legislative intent?
64. What is the intent of the legislature?
65. What is legislative purpose?
66. What is legislation?
67. What is legislative meaning?
68. What are the two elements of a legal act?
69. What is the primary source of legislative intent?
70. Garcia v. Social Security Commission
B. Power to Construe
71. What is the Judicial function?
72. What does the Supreme Court construe?
73. What is moot and academic?
74. The legislature can modify or annul judicial construction if?
75. What is sine qua non?
76. What is ambiguity?
77. When does a statute considered ambiguous?
78. What is the fundamental duty of the court?
79. What is verbal legis?
80. What is verbal legis and where was it derived from?
81. What is Expresio unios est exclusion alterius?
82. What is the constitutional mandate of the supreme court?
83. What does stare decisis et non quieta novire mean?
84. What is the reason that judicial ruling does not have retroactive effect?
85. What is lex prospicit, non respicit?
86. Who has the power to modify or abandon the principle of law?
87. The court defines?
C. Limitations on powers to construe
88. What are the leading stars of judicial construction?
89. Courts may not, in the guise of interpretation?
90. A statute may be vague when?
91. Courts do not pass upon?
92.