Reputation

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....

Reputable

Having or worthy of good repute held in esteem honorable praiseworthy as a reputable man or character reputable conduct...

Habit and repute

Habit and repute. By the law of Scotland marriage may be established by habit and repute where the parties cohabit and are at the same time held and reputed as man and wife, Bell's Law Dict.; see Dysart Peerage Case, (1881) 6 App Cas 489....

reputation

reputation : overall quality or character as seen or judged by people in general within a community see also character evidence at evidence reputation testimony at testimony ...

Reputed owner

Reputed owner, one who has, to all appearances, the right and actual possession of property. By the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 38-an enactment which repeats with little variation the successive enactments on the subject dating from the reign of James I, it is provided that all goods being at the commencement of the bankruptcy in the possession, order, or disposition of the bankrupt, in his trade or business, by the consent and permission of the true owner, under such circumstances that he is reputed owner thereof, pass to his trustee. As to the conduct of the owner, see Simeons v. Durand, (1928) 2 KB 66, and see Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1908, s. 4, enabling a landlord to distrain on goods comprised in any bill of sale, hire-purchase agreement, or settlement made by a tenant or on goods in the possession, order and disposition of such tenant by the consent and permission of the true owner under such circumstances that such tenant is the owner thereof. See HIRE-PURCHASE....

reputation testimony

reputation testimony see testimony ...

Reputedly

In common opinion or estimation by repute...

Reputatively

By repute...

Goodwill

Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the business whether connected with the premises of business or its name or style, everything connected with or carrying the benefit of the business, Ramnik Vallabhdas Madhwani v. Taraben Pravinlal Madhwani, (2004) 1 SCC 407: AIR 2004 SC 1084 (Partnership Act, 1932, s. 55).A business's reputation, patronage, and other intan-gible assets that are considered when apprising the business, esp. for purchase; The ability to earn income in excess of the an come that would be expected from the business veined as a mere collec-tion of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and ...

Stigma

Stigma, denotes loss of confidence by the employer amount to 'stigma', Kamal Kishore Lakshman v. Pan American World Airways, AIR 1987 SC 229: (1987) 1 SCC 146.Stigma, is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign etc., indicting that something is not considered normal or standard (Webster's New World Dictionary), Dipti Prakash Banerjee v. Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, (1999) 3 SCC 60.Stigma, is understood to be something that is detraction from the character or reputation of a person. It is blemish, imputation, mark or label indicating a deviation from a norm, mere description of background fact cannot be called as stigma. State of U.P. v. Ram Bachan Tripathi, AIR 2005 SC 3212.--in the absence of a statutory definition of the word 'stigma', its meaning as available in dictionaries. According to Webster's New World Dictionary it is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign, etc. in...

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