When someone illegally harms propey, body or someone’s reputation, it is known as: September 2007
Correct Answer: Civil Injury
Description: Ans. B: Civil Injury A civil injury is any damage done to person or propey that is precipitated by a breach of contract, Negligence, or breach of duty. In the technical sense of the term it is a delict committed in contempt, or outrage of any one, whereby his body, his dignity, or his reputation, is maliciously injured. Injuries may be divided into two classes, With reference to the means used by the wrong doer, namely, by words and by acts. Verbal injuries Real injuries A verbal injury, when directed against a private person, consists in the uttering contumelious words, which tend to expose his character, by making him little or ridiculous. Where the offensive words are uttered in the beat of a dispute, and spoken to the person's face, the law does not presume any malicious intention in the utterer, whose resentment generally subsides with his passion, and yet, even in that case, the truth of the injurious words seldom absolves entirely from punishment.
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