Honor and Reputation: Some Issues of Improvement of a Conceptual Framework in the Sphere of Protection of the Personal Non-Property Rights

Abstract

The article is about the question of terminology improvement in the field of providing rights of defense of human honor and dignity. The Author analyzes some legal terms that have been set in the legislation, touches an issue of their interpretation. Noting that the concepts “honor”, “good name” and “reputation” are synonyms, he asks about expediency of fixing in the legislation several concepts having identical value. Proving the point of his view, the Author considers that the concepts “honor”, “good name” and “business reputation” can be replaced with the unified term “reputation”. The Author offers to discuss the statement of the following articles of the specified acts: p. 1 Art. 23 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, p. 1 Art. 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Art. 152 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, p. 1 Art. 5.61 of the Code of the Russian Federation of Administrative Offences.

Keywords

• honor
• dignity
• reputation
• business reputation
• non-property rights
• human rights
• state legal protection