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12) Pers:l Inj:s Disabl:t temp:y

Defence of the Defender's [own] reputation. We now come to consi Reputation is the only remaining quarter in which
a man can be attacked - We now then come lastly
to consider whether Protection of a man's self against
an attack made upon his reputation ought also to
operate as an exemption in favour of an act of
the sort in question . [an act of temporary disablement]
This case still less simple than either of the former — why - This case is not near so simple as either of the
former. The reason will soon appear from what
has been already on a former occasion remarked concerning the
word Reputation . Reputation is a substantive
of the improper kind ; the entity it characterises is the name of
is not a real but a fictitious entity - A man's person , his
property , [I mean here any thing , any portion of
meatter in which he can be said to have a property ,
]is are real entities . On this account we
are not to be surprized that the notion of an attack
upon reputation bears wears a s an as such altogether
different from that of an attack either
upon person or upon property . To attack a man's person or
his property , is immed [I speak not here of
property] is either immediately or intermmediately
to touch them - What reputation [speaking
literally] is not any thing that can be touched .
What is it then that is really done when a man's
reputation is said to be attacked?

Attack upon reputation - what A man's reputtation is said to be attacked ,[or a man
is said to be attacked in his reputations, ] when by words
or other signs such ideas are raised in the minds of
m persons on whom his happiness may chance to depend , as have

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	162	Info in main headings field	pers:l injuries disablt tempory
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e9 / e10 / e11 / e12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	23779
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