 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.  Case and Comment - Stran 591898Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1905 - 922 strani
...negligence. Fuller v. Railroad, 480. Negligence is the omission to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances...under the existing circumstances would not have done. Fuller v. Railroad, 480. Where the charter of the defendant city authorized it to operate an electric... | |
 | 1896 - 644 strani
...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 - 980 strani
...Contributory negligence.—1. Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the 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 injury upon himself cannot... | |
 | 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 strani
...the United States, as follows : "Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the 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 of the occasion."... | |
 | 1877 - 1004 strani
...Contributory negligence. — 1. Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the 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 upon himself cannot... | |
 | 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 strani
...instruction given is as follows: "Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances...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... | |
 | 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 strani
...the 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,...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... | |
 | 1878 - 680 strani
...defendant's counsel excepted. Held, Error. Negligence is failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the 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 of the occasion.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 858 strani
...sufficient to dispose of the case. Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and pru dent person would ordinarily have done under the 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 of the. occasion.... | |
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