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Dolo and Culpa
Dolo and Culpa
FELONIES (DELITOS)
• Acts and omissions punishable by law
• Covers both Dolo and Culpa
DOLO
• Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud
CULPA
• A civil law term that implies that certain conduct is actionable
• It implies the failure to perform a legally imposed duty, or negligence
DEFINITION OF TERMS
MISTAKE OF FACT
• misapprehension of fact on the part of the person who caused injury
to another
PROXIMATE CAUSE
• cause which, in the natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by
any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury and without
which the result would have not occurred
LAWS
In the case filed by Laude's sister, her lawyer said there was enough
basis for Pemberton to be charged with murder since evidence
indicated he used force and intended to kill the victim
N E W S E XC E R P T R E G A R D I N G
C U L PA