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Negligent Entrustment

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

negligent entrustment


: the entrusting of a dangerous article (as a motor vehicle) to one who is reckless or too inexperienced or incompetent to use it safely
;also
: a theory or doctrine making one liable for injury caused by a party to whom one negligently entrusted something




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