Diligence - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research

Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles laborious or continued search after truth as researches of human

Belabor

To ply diligently to work carefully upon

hardworking

habitually working diligently and for long hours

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Sedulous

Diligent in application or pursuit constant steady and persevering in business or in endeavors to effect an object steadily

degree of care undertaken or required in each case, i.e., (1) ordinary, which is the want of ordinary diligence; (2) slight, the want of great diligence; and (3) gross, the want of slight diligence. A smaller degree

Hire

furnished by the employer in a proper manner; and, lastly, to exercise a proper degree of care and diligence about the work. The hiring of care and attention. To this class belong a gisters of cattle, warehousemen,

Mesne profit

means those profits which the person in wrongful possession of such property actually received or might with ordinary diligence have received therefrom, together with interest on such profits, but shall not include profits due to improvements made

notice

notice 2 : implied notice in this entry constructive notice : notice that one exercising ordinary care and diligence as a matter of duty would possess and esp. that is imputed by law rather than from fact

Collision of ships

this kind may arise where both parties are to blame, where there has been a want of due diligence or of skill on both sides: in such a case, the rule of law is, that the loss

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