A civil complaint was filed  in  the Court of  First  Instance of Manila by the appellant, alleging that the appellees, her former employers  wrote her a libelous letter of separation,  a copy of which was posted in  the company's bulletin  board, and praying that judgment be  rendered sentencing the appellees to  pay to the appellant damages in the amount of P50,000 with  interest and  "to  retract the contents of the  letter of separation" and "to  give said retraction  due and  requisite publicity."  Upon  appellees' motion, the  complaint was  dismissed  on  the ground of prescription.  Her motion for reconsideration having been denied, the appellant  has  interposed the present appeal.
 
As the appellant admits  that the complaint  was filed one  year and six  months  after  the publication  of  the Iibelous letter  on  October  18, 1954,  we are only to determine what is the  prescriptive period of  a civil  action arising, according to  her, from libel covered by Articles 353, 355  and  360  of the  Revised  Penal  Code.   Article 1161  of  the  Civil  Code  provides that civil  obligations resulting from criminal offenses shall be governed  by the penal laws, subject to the provisions of Article 2177 and of the pertinent provisions of  Chapter  2,  Preliminary Title, on Human Relations, and of Title  XVII of said Code, regulating  damages.   A perusal of the rules restricting the application  of the  penal laws,  reveals that there is  no provision about the question involved in the instant case.
 
Concerning extinguishment of obligations arising from felonies,  Article 112 of the  Revised  Penal  Code provides that "civil liability, established in Articles  100,  101,  102 and  103  of this Code shall  be extinguished in the same manner as other obligations  in  accordance with the provisions of  the Civil Law."  Upon the other hand,  Article 1231 of the Civil  Code is  to the  effect that "*  * * other causes of extinguishment  of obligations, such as  annulment, rescission, fulfillment of a resolutory  condition, and prescription, are governed elsewhere in this Code."  On the matter  of prescription,  the applicable provision  is  Article  1129 of the Civil Code which states that "actions prescribe by  mere lapse of  time  fixed  by  law."   This necessarily leads us to Article 1147 of the Civil Code which requires that an action for defamation must be filed within one year.  The broad  term "defamation" in  the  absence of any  other specific provisions,  includes libel.
 
Wherefore, the order appealed from is hereby affirmed With costs against the  appellant.   So ordered.
 
Bengzon, Montemayor, Reyes, A.,  Bautista  Angelo, Labrador,  Concepcion, Reyes, J. B.  L.,  Endencia, and Felix, JJ., concur.