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care 1 : watchful or protective attention, caution, concern, prudence, or regard usually towards an action or situation ;esp : due care [a person has a duty to use in dealing with others, and failure to do so is negligence "R. I. Mehr"] see also due care, negligence, standard of care NOTE: Statute, case law, and custom often impose a duty of care. The degree or standard of care owed varies depending on the circumstances. For example, a landlord has to exercise greater care in relation to a tenant than to a trespasser. 2 a : personal supervision or responsibility : charge b : maintenance ...
due care
due care : the care that an ordinarily reasonable and prudent person would use under the same or similar circumstances called also ordinary care reasonable care see also due diligence compare fault, negligence ...
Child in need of care and protection
Child in need of care and protection, s. 2(d) 'child in need of care and protection' means a child-(i) who is found without any home or settled place or abode and without any ostensible means of subsistence, (ii) who resides with a person (whether a guardian of the child or not) and such person-(a) has threatened to kill or injure the child and there is a reasonable likelihood of the threat being carried out, or (b) has killed, abused or neglected some other child or children and there is a reasonable likelihood of the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that person, (iii) who is mentally or physically challenged orill children or children suffering from terminal diseases or incurable diseases having no one to support or look after, (iv) who has a parent or guardian and such parent or guardian is unfit or incapacitated to exercise control over the child, (v) who does not have parent and no one is willing to take care of or whose parents have abandoned him or who is m...
Common duty of care
Common duty of care, terms: (1) An occupier of premises owes the same duty, the 'common duty of care' to all his visitors, except insofar as he is free to and does extend, restrict, modify or exclude his duty to any visitor or visitors by agreement or otherwise; (2) The common duty of care is a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purpose for which he is invited or permitted by the occupier to be there, Maguire v. Sefton MBA (CA), (2006) 1 WLR 2550 [Occupier's Liability Act, 1957, sub-s. 2(1) and (2)]....
child and dependent care credit
child and dependent care credit A tax credit in the amount of a percentage of the amount expended on child or dependent care by an employed individual. ...
ordinary care
ordinary care 1 : due care 2 : conformity to the reasonable business standards that prevail in a particular area for a particular business ...
reasonable care
reasonable care : due care ...
standard of care
standard of care :the degree of care or competence that one is expected to exercise in a particular circumstance or role ...
cared for
having needed care and attention as well cared for children Opposite of uncared for...
Health care system
Health care system, means an institution or organisation engaged, either directly or indirectly, in health care for mothers, infants or pregnant women, and includes a health worker in private practice, a pharmacy, drug store and any association of health workers. [Infant Milk Substitutes Feeding Bottle and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 (41 of 1992), s. 2(d)]...
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