Concept in Definition ABC

Infamy is a term that is used to refer to that evil, materialized in some comment, information, among others, and that is capable of affecting and dealing a hard blow to the honesty and credibility of an individual. For example, a person who publicly makes statements without evidence against a politician, accusing him of being corrupt, will be committing an outrage.

It should be noted that in many cases defamation can be claimed through the courts, which will decide whether or not a punishment is appropriate for the person who promoted it.

The use of this concept dates back several centuries, at the time of the Roman Empire, where it would be installed to never disappear.

In those days, infamy involved the degradation of a person's civil honor. The censor, who was the authority competent, he was in charge of placing the infamous placard on a person when he carried out the census procedure, and that meant for him the loss of his reputation. In the census, the morality and the finances of citizens.

This situation of being labeled infamous also discredited the person to access public office, exercise guardianships and curatelas, and to vote in elections, that is, their participation social was certainly affected.

Meanwhile, the roman law distinguished two types of infamy depending on the causes that motivated it... infamy facti took place when the citizen carried out an action contrary to what the public order establishes, the good traditions wave moral; the most common examples include the woman who commits adultery. And for its part the infamy iurs, It was the result of having carried out a fraud or a malicious action against someone.

Regarding right Canonical infamy is considered the loss of good name as a result of controversial and negative opinions held by various well-regarded people. Infamies of the iurs type can be removed by law canonical from the so-called purges, while those of the facti type can be absolved through the manifestation of the sincere penalty for having committed an improper act.