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Definition :

Reputation, credit, honour, character, good name. Injuries to one's reputation, which is a personal right, are defamatory. See CHARACTER; LIBEL.

Certain private and public rights may be established by reputation, e.g., highways [Austin's case, (1672) 1 Vent. 181]; commons, Warwick v. Queen's College, Oxford, (1871) 6 Ch App 716; connection of mark or name with goods: see TRADE MARKS.