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Reasonable Person

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

reasonable person


: a fictional person with an ordinary degree of reason, prudence, care, foresight, or intelligence whose conduct, conclusion, or expectation in relation to a particular circumstance or fact is used as an objective standard by which to measure or determine something (as the existence of negligence) [we have generally held that a reasonable person would not believe that he or she has been seized when an officer merely approaches that person in a public place and begins to ask questions "State v. Cripps, 533 N.W.2d 388 (1995)"] called also reasonable man




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