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INJURY REPUTATION [7 records]

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Record 1 2026-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Civil Liability (civil law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
CONT

Privacy violations can result in reputational injuries, which have a long history of recognition. Reputational harms impair a person’s ability to maintain personal esteem in the eyes of others and can taint a person’s image.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit de la responsabilité civile (droit civil)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
CONT

L'atteinte à la réputation peut se caractériser de différentes manières : la diffamation, l'injure, la dénonciation calomnieuse, le dénigrement, etc.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

One involving or consisting in an injury to the person or to the reputation or feelings....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Legal System
CONT

An exception to the exclusion of damages for loss of reputation has been admitted in the case of a banker's failure to honour a customer's cheque, where damages have been awarded for the presumed injury to the customer's reputation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Théorie du droit
OBS

perte de réputation : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

non-material injury : By all accounts included are injury to reputation as such, injured feelings, indignation, fear and the psychological need for satisfaction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Le [...] présent article prévoit expressément la réparation du préjudice non matériel. Il peut s'agir du pretium doloris, de la perte des amenités de la vie, du préjudice esthétique, aussi bien que de l'atteinte à l'honneur ou à la réputation.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Penal Law
  • Rights and Freedoms
DEF

Offence committed by every one who wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the complainant.

OBS

Although the adjective "injurious" is not usually restricted to actions which cause physical injury but may also include attacks on a person's reputation or property, in the field of family violence, it is used in the sense of "aggravated assault".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Droit pénal
  • Droits et libertés
DEF

Infraction commise par quiconque blesse, mutile ou défigure le plaignant ou met sa vie en danger.

OBS

voies de fait graves : Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel dans ce contexte.

Key term(s)
  • voie de fait grave

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
  • Derecho penal
  • Derechos y Libertades
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Record 6 2008-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

... though recovery is primarily for business or other economic loss, damages may also be awarded for injured feelings at least consequent thereon.

CONT

By all accounts included are injury to reputation as such, injured feelings, indignation, fear and the psychological need for satisfaction....

OBS

term rarely used in the singular.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 7 1988-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

First and foremost is the libel rule that, aside from actual pecuniary damage, injury to reputation and feelings is itself compensable.

CONT

... most recently in McCarey v. Associated Newspapers Pearson., L.J. said that the plaintiff’s damages "may also include the natural injury to his feelings - the natural grief and distress that he may have felt at having been spoken of in defamatory terms ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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