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Search Philippine law — real, cited, and ranked by authority.
Ask in plain English or Filipino. BatasDB reads a verified library of Philippine laws, cases, and agency rules, ranks results by legal authority, and summarizes only what it actually found.
Estafa cases of 2025
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Legal Search
Search the Philippine legal library.
Supreme Court decisions promulgated in 2025 that discuss estafa, including bouncing-check cases under Article 315(2)(d).1 Deceit under Article 315(2)(a) is on the same docket.2
People v. Rosell
To convict one of estafa through bouncing checks, the prosecution must prove the concurrence of the following elements…
Morales v. People
He is hereby ACQUITTED of the crime of Estafa under Article 315, paragraph 2(a) of the Revised Penal Code…
The flow
What happens when you search.
Four steps, usually under 200 milliseconds from start to finish. Each step has its own job — and none of them makes up facts.
- 01
You ask in plain language.
Type a question the way you'd ask a lawyer — in English, Filipino, or a mix. You can also paste a specific citation ("G.R. No. 148560", "Article 315 RPC") and go straight to it. No special symbols, no keyword guessing.
- 02
We search Philippine law only.
Two searches run side by side — one that matches meaning, one that matches exact text — across the library. Nothing foreign, nothing made up, nothing outside our library.
- 03
We rank by legal authority, not just text match.
A tax circular isn't the Constitution. An SC en banc ruling outweighs a division decision on the same question. Results are ordered by how much authority a document actually carries — so the binding answer comes up first.
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A short summary, based only on what we found.
A plain-English summary reads only the matching passages and cites them back. It never invents legal text. If the answer isn't in our library, the summary says so instead of guessing.
What we cover
Philippine law only.
A focused library makes for a sharper search. BatasDB only covers the laws and rulings that actually bind a Philippine court — nothing else.
- Court decisions
- Supreme Court decisions since 1901, plus the Court of Tax Appeals and Sandiganbayan — en banc, division, and per curiam rulings.
- Laws & Codes
- Republic Acts, older statutes, and the Constitution — full text, split where the law itself splits (section, article, paragraph), so every result is citable.
- Government agency rules
- Circulars and rules from the BIR, SEC, BSP, DILG, COMELEC, CSC, DOLE, COA, and more — the issuances practice actually turns on.
- Freshness & scope
- New documents are added every day, and repealed provisions are flagged. Philippine law only — no U.S. case law, no UK statutes, no legal blogs.
For builders
Build your own AI assistant on our API.
The same search that powers BatasDB is available as an API. Point your internal tools or AI assistant at a single endpoint and get grounded, authority-ranked Philippine law back as clean JSON — no scraping, no foreign case law, no made-up citations.
See how it worksOne call covers
- • Supreme Court, CTA & Sandiganbayan decisions
- • Republic Acts, Codes & the Constitution
- • Agency issuances — BIR, BSP, SEC, DOLE, DILG
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Read the details.
The short version is above. For the how-and-why behind each stage:
Deep dive
How search works.
Why we read questions and laws differently, how we combine meaning-based and exact-text matching, and why we split laws the way they split themselves.
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How ranking works.
The full authority ladder — Constitution, statute, SC en banc, division, agency circular, and everything below — plus how we weigh each tier.
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