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2011 California Code
Civil Code
DIVISION 1. PERSONS [38 - 86]
PART 2. PERSONAL RIGHTS
Section 43


CA Civ Code § 43 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Besides the personal rights mentioned or recognized in the Government Code, every person has, subject to the qualifications and restrictions provided by law, the right of protection from bodily restraint or harm, from personal insult, from defamation, and from injury to his personal relations.

(Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 604.)

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