Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or doing what such a person under the existing circumstances would not have done. The Pacific Reporter - Էջ 2111904Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1905 - 922 էջ
...negligence. 3. Negligence is the omission to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or...under the existing circumstances would not have done. FULLER v. RAILROAD. ACTION by RF Fuller against Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., heard by Judge Jas.... | |
| 1896 - 644 էջ
...reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or in doing what such a person under the existing circumstances would not have done :" Baltimore Railroad Co. v. Jones, 95 US 439. There is no question of contributory negligence in the... | |
| 1877 - 1004 էջ
...negligence. — 1. Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or...the existing circumstances would not have done ; The essence of the fault may lie in omission or commission ; One who by his negligence has brought an injury... | |
| 1877 - 980 էջ
...negligence.—1. Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or...the existing circumstances would not have done; The essence of the fault may lie in omi.-sion or commission ; One who by his negligence has brought an... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1905 - 618 էջ
...follows : "Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or...the existing circumstances would not have done. The essence of the fault may lie in omission or commission. The duty is dictated and measured by the exigencies... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1890 - 658 էջ
...jury as follows: 1st. Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would have done, under the circumstances of the situation, or...under the existing circumstances would not have done. 2d. Contributing negligence is defined to be that act on the part of a party injured that is proximate... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1904 - 636 էջ
...follows: "Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or...under the existing circumstances, would not have done. Klenk v. Railroad. The duty is dictated and measured by the exigencies of the occasion. The burden... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 858 էջ
...the case. Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and pru dent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or...the existing circumstances would not have done. The essence of the fault may lie in omission or commission. The duty is dictated and measured by the exigencies... | |
| 1878 - 680 էջ
...Held, Error. Negligence is failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or...the existing circumstances, would not have done. The essence of the fault may lie in omission or commission. The duty is dictated and measured by the exigencies... | |
| John Bouvier - 1883 - 876 էջ
...reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or the doing what such a person under the existing circumstances would not have done. 95 US 441, per Swayne, J. Dr. A\ harton (Negligence, § 3) defines the term as follows : ' ' Negligence,... | |
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