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INFAMY (Lat. infamia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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INFAMY (See also:Lat. infamia) , public disgrace or loss of See also:character. Infamy (infamia) occupied a prominent See also:place in See also:Roman See also:law, and took the See also:form of a censure on individuals pronounced by a competent authority in the See also:state, which censure was the result either of certain actions which they had committed or of certain modes of See also:life which they had pursued. Such a censure involved disqualification for certain rights both in public and in private law (see A. H. J. Greenidge, Infamia, its Place in Roman Public and Private Law, 1894). In See also:English law infamy attached to a See also:person in consequence of conviction of some See also:crime. The effect . of infamy was to render a person incompetent to give See also:evidence in any legal proceeding. Infamy as a cause of incompetency was abolished by an See also:act of 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 85). The word " infamous " is used in a particular sense in the English Medical Act of 1858, which provides that if any registered medical practitioner is judged by the See also:General Medical See also:Council, after due inquiry, to have been guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect, his name may be erased from the Medical See also:Register. The General Medical Council are the See also:sole See also:judges of whether a practitioner has been guilty of conduct infamous in a professional respect, and they act in a judicial capacity, but an accused person is generally allowed to appear by counsel.

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action which is regarded as disgraceful or dishonourable by a See also:man's professional brethren—such, for example, as issuing advertisements in See also:order to induce See also:people to consult him in preference to other practitioners—may be found infamous.

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