Contributory negligence

Contributory Negligence A doctrine of common law that if a person's own negligence contributes to causing an accident in which that person is injured, the injured party can't collect any damages (money) from another party who caused the accident.

Contributory Negligence: A defense to negligence, which points out that the plaintiff's negligence contributed to his or her injuries. Contributory negligence is an absolute bar to the plaintiff's recovery against the defendant.

contributory negligenceThe failure to exercise care by a plaintiff, which contributed to the plaintiff's injury.
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Contributory Negligence
The doctrine under which one cannot recover for personal injury when one's own negligence contributed to the cause of the injury. This doctrine has by and large been replaced with the doctrine of comparative negligence.

Contributory negligence -The rule of law under which an act or omission of plaintiff is a contributing cause of injury and a bar to recovery.
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Contributory Negligence: Broadly, carelessness on the plaintiff's part. More precisely, conduct which falls below the standard of care established by law for the protection of one's self against unreasonable risk of harm.

Contributory Negligence
when the actions of the plaintiff also contributed to the harm that the plaintiff endured.

Contributory Negligence:
The negligence of a person which, while not being the primary cause of a tort, nevertheless combined with the act or omission of the primary defendant to cause the tort, and without which the tort would not have occurred.

CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE: Prevents a party from recovering for damages if he or she contributed in any way to the injury. Not all states follow this system.

Contributory Negligence
A legal doctrine that says if the plaintiff in a civil action for negligence also was negligent, he/she cannot recover damages from the defendant for the defendant's negligence.

Contributory Negligence - A legal doctrine that prevents the plaintiff in a civil action from recovering against a defendant for his/her negligence if the plaintiff was also negligent.

Contributory Negligence
Frequently, more than one person has acted negligently to create an injury.

contributory negligence
n. a doctrine of common law that if a person was injured in part due to his/her own negligence (his/her negligence "contributed" to the accident), ...

contributory negligence
A defence in an action for damages for injuries arising from the defendant's negligence. The defendant attempts to prove that the plaintiff's own negligence caused or contributed to the injuries suffered.
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Term: Contributory Negligence
Definition: The doctrine under which one cannot recover for personal injury when one's own negligence contributed to the cause of the injury.

Expanded Legal Definition of ContributionContributory Negligence The negligence of a person which, while not being the primary cause of a tort, nevertheless combined with the act or omission of the primary defendant to cause the tort, ...

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The great majority of states have replaced the doctrine of contributory negligence with that of comparative negligence.
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Affirmative Defense: A defense raised in a responsive pleading (answer) relating a new matter as a defense to the complaint; affirmative defenses might include contributory negligence or estopped in civil actions; in criminal cases insanity, ...

comparative negligence - The degree to which a person contributed to his/her own injury, damage or death. Usually measured in terms of percentage. Contributory negligence is the failure to exercise care by a plaintiff, ...

Gross negligence is any action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another. See also contributory negligence and comparative negligence.
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there lies yet another, more serious type of negligence which is called gross negligence. Gross negligence is any action or an omission in reckless disregard of the consequences to the safety or property of another. See also contributory negligence ...

Contributory negligence: Negligence which is not the primary cause of a tort, but which combined with the act or omission of another person to cause the damage.

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