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.
Cal. Civ. Code § 43
PERSONAL RIGHTS
Applied in 29 court decisions — leading case 45 Cal. 2d 345 - Cole v. Rush (1955)
Most recently applied in Gabrielle A. v. County of Orange (March 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1953, Ch. 604.
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