quotation

[QUOTE.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of quoting or citing. 2. A pa age quoted or cited; a part of a book, ., quoted or adduced in proof or illustration; a citation. One author may quote from another without violating copyright, if the quotation be fair and not so extensive as to extract the most valuable part of the copyrighted work. It would be difficult to define just what constitutes a fair quotation. When the quotation is unfair, an injunction will lie to restrain the publication. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;