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Article 2217

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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Moral damages include: physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar suffering.

Official text — RA 386

Moral damages include physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation, and similar injury. Though incapable of pecuniary computation, moral damages may be recovered if they are the proximate result of the defendant's wrongful act for omission.

Source: lawphil.net (RA 386 as amended)

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