Aproximación conceptual a la tipología del daño en Colombia y Daño al buen nombre de la persona natural como perjuicio autónomo

Abstract

This work has been developed with the intention of presenting a subject that is not peacefully accepted in the doctrine; and precisely for this particular circumstance, it has been prepared so that the reader can understand at first, the basic concepts related to the conceptualization and classification of damage as a notorious element of liability. The characteristics of the damage are also exposed on the text and, likewise, a comparative analysis of the international doctrine related with de object of the investigation is done in order to illustrate the reader; finally, the first article concludes with an examination of the concepts under the highest‟s courts perspective. In a second section, the author analyzes the core concept -the damage- but related exclusively with a defined sphere: the good name of the natural person. While it is true, this paper cannot fail to mention the possible consequences when the harmful event falls on the name of a legal person, the real intention of the research is to limit this kind of injury to a natural person; then this paper intends to solve the issue of recognition and value of it, not without mention the most relevantprocedural aspects in relation to damage to the good name of the natural person.