Reasonable Care: The standard of care in negligence cases; the duty to act reasonably so as to avoid harming others.
Reasonable Care
(n) Reasonable care is defined as the care, concern, caution or action an average prudent person is expected to take in such circumstances.
Reasonable Care: The degree of care that a prudent or careful person would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.
reasonable care
n. the degree of caution and concern for the safety of himself/herself and others an ordinarily prudent and rational person would use in the circumstances.
Reasonable Care
That degree of care that would ordinarily be exercised by a reasonably prudent person under similar circumstances.
REASONABLE CARE: The level of care a typical person would use if faced with the same circumstances.
REASONABLE DOUBT: The level of certainty a juror must have to find a defendant guilty of a crime.
Term: Reasonable Care
Definition: That degree of care that would ordinarily be exercised by a reasonably prudent person under similar circumstances.
Reasonable care and diligence must be taken in collecting the price of merchandise sold on credit. A factor must account to the principal for the proceeds and apply them in the instructed manner.
Diligence Reasonable care or attention to a matter.
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A person who owes a duty of care to someone else and breaches it by lack of reasonable care may be liable in damages for negligence. The negligence may involve a positive deed or a failure to act. If no damage results, there can be no action.
Before paying dividends, directors must take reasonable care to secure the preparation of proper balance-sheets and estimates, and must exercise their judgment as business men on the balance-sheets and estimates submitted to them.
NegligenceThe failure to take reasonable care to prevent foreseeable harm to others.
But in every case good faith requires that he should take reasonable care; and what is reasonable care, must materially depend upon the nature and quality of the thing, the circumstances under which it is deposited, ...
Shipowners owe a duty of reasonable care to passengers. Consequently, passengers who are injured aboard ships may bring suit the same as if they had been injured ashore through the negligence of a third party.
"And, with respect to such a visitor at least, we consider it settled law, that he, using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, ...
He is required to use the property in a tenant-like and proper manner; to take reasonable care of it and to restore it at the end of his term, subject only to the deterioration produced by ordinary wear and the reasonable use for which it was demised.
The obligation of a person to exercise reasonable care in the conduct of an activity. Breach of a duty of care which causes damage or loss to another may give rise to an action in tort (q.v.).
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Definition - Noun
: a rule in tort law: in the absence of testimony by eyewitnesses a jury may assume that a person has exercised reasonable care to preserve his or her own safety used esp. in Iowa
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the doctrine that makes a plaintiff at least partly responsible for his or her injuries if the danger that caused the injury was open and obvious and the plaintiff failed to exercise reasonable care in the face of that open and obvious danger.
An act of God, however, is so extraordinary and devoid of human agency that reasonable care would not avoid the consequences; hence, the injured party has no right to damages.
reasonable care and skill) and the materials (e.g. satisfactory quality).
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This is a claim which may be brought by an employee whose employer has ended their contract of employment in breach of contract (e.g.
The thing speaks for itself. An inference of something occurring , usually negligence, that upon reasonable belief, that would not have occurred had reasonable care been used.
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effects could not possibly be prevented (e.g., flood, earthquake, tornado). In modern jurisdictions, "act of God" is often broadened by statute to include all natural phenomena whose effects could not be prevented by the exercise of reasonable care ...
If there is a failure to exercise reasonable care to prevent injury or damage then there may be negligence.
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