| 1872 - 854 strani
...life, or serious bodily injury. Negligence is the omission to do something which a reaSonable, prudent man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily...something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do under all the circumstances surrounding and characterizing the particular case ; and in this case it... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1873 - 740 strani
...other packages of similar outward appearance were usually bandied. "Negligence" has been defined to be "the omission to do something which a reasonable man,...considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affuirs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do."* It must be... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1874 - 960 strani
...with approval by the courts, " is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." 1 As a limitation, framed for the purpose of excluding accidents from the category of negligence, this... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 strani
...:4 negligence being defined to be " the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do;"5 negligence, moreover, not being " absolute or intrinsic," but " always relative to some circumstances... | |
| 1896 - 542 strani
...forethought as, under the circumstances, duty requires should be given or exercised. It may consist In the omission to do something which a reasonable man,...regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do.— BROTHKii'ios v. MANHATTAN BBACH IMP. Co., Neb. ,67 NW Kep. 479. 87. NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS — Surety—... | |
| 1875 - 870 strani
...approval by the courts, that it "is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." Thus it is seen that the concluding words of our author's elaborate argument call up by their very... | |
| 1875 - 842 strani
...Hence negligence is said to be, the omission to do something which a reasonable man guided upon the considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct...something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do : Ernst v. Hudson River RR Co., 3d NY 927. More than this ordinary care the law does not require (Sh.... | |
| Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 strani
...merely of breach of contract? * Negligence may be defined to be the omission to do something r^oni which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations...regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do (I). Negligence thus defined... | |
| William Wait - 1878 - 1004 strani
...carelessness. It is defined to be "the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." ALDERSON, B., in Blyth v. Birmingham Water Works Co., 11 Exch. 781, 784. See, also, Bizzell v. Booker,... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1878 - 696 strani
...not have been foreseen. There must be an omission to do something which a reasonable man, acting upon considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or the doing something which such a man would not do. Probability of danger is to be taken into account,... | |
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