OFFENDER:

OFFENDED
PARTY:

ACTS
PUNISHED:

MEANS

GRAVE COERCION
(Art. 286)

LIGHT COERCION
(Art. 287)

Any person without

authority

Creditor

Any
person

Any person

Debtor

Any
person

PREVENTI COMPULSI Seizure of

VE
VE
a thing
Preventin Compellin belonging
g another g another
to a
from
to do
debtor as
doing
something payment
somethin
against
of debt
g not
his will,
prohibited
right or
by law
wrong
Qualifying
circumstance:
Right of suffrage
Religious Intolerance
Violence, intimidation,

Violence

Unjust
vexation

No

OTHER SIMILAR
COERCIONS
(Art. 288)

Any person, agent,

officer of any
association or
corporation
Any laborer or
employee employed
by the offender
Forcing or
Paying
compellin tokens or
g or
objects
knowingly
other
permitting than legal
the
tender,
forcing or
unless
compellin expressly
g to
requested
purchase
by labor
merchand
ise or
commodit
ies
force,

FORMATION,
MAINTENANCE &
PROHIBITION OF
COMBINATION
OF CAPITAL OR
LABOR
THROUGH
VIOLENCE OR
THREATS
(Art. 289)
Any person

Laborers or
employers
Employing
violence or threats
for the purpose of
organizing,
maintaning, or
preventing
coalitions of
capital or labor,
strike of laborers
or lock out of
employers

Violence and

threat

and
Intimidati
on

violence.
Unjustly
annoyin
g or
vexing
an
innocent
person
Payment of debt

stealth,
threat, or
intimidati
on, Labor
Code Art
116

A. Mayor min + Fine

equivalent to the
thing, not less than
75

A. Mayor or fine from

200-500 or both

Preventing and
Compelling
PURPOSE

PENALTY

PC + Fine not
exceeding 6k

threat in such a
degree that would
compel or force
the laborers or
employers but
should not
constitute a more
serious offense
Organizing or
maintaining or
preventing
coalitions of
capital or laborers
or lockout of
employer
A. Mayor + Fine
not exceeding 300
pesos

THREATS
Intimidation is essential

COERCION
Violence, Intimidation is the essence of the crime

Intimidation is future and conditional

Intimidation or violence is imminent, actual, and

immediate
Directed to the victim only.

Directed to the victime or his family

GRACE COERCION
Use of violence upon the offended party to prevent or
compel
Act of preventing by force must be made at the time
the offended party was doing or about to do the act to

UNJUST VEXATION
No use of violence or intimidation
Violence or Intimidation exerted when the act was
already done

be prevented