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ordinary negligence
Matched in: Term ordinary negligence
malpractice
malpractice : negligence, misconduct, lack of ordinary skill, or a breach of duty in the performance of a professional service (as in medicine) resulting in
Negligence
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Hire
merchants, and wharfingers. They are bound to use ordinary diligence, and of course are responsible for losses by ordinary negligence. The locatio operis mercium vehendarum, or the carriage of goods for hire. In respect to contracts of this … reasonable exercise of skill; and of course he is not responsible for any losses not occasioned by the ordinary negligence of himself or of his servants. The exceptions to this general rule are post-masters, innkeepers, and common carriers,
Reasonable cause
Reasonable cause, means a cause which prevents a reasonable man of an ordinary prudence acting under normal circumstances, without negligence or inaction or want of bona fide from furnishing the return
Collision of ships
neither could maintain an action against the other; but that if one of them by the exercise of ordinary care might have avoided the consequences of the other negligence, the former was liable for any injury that
due care
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
entrust
of another ;specif : to deliver to a merchant who may transfer ownership to a buyer in the ordinary course of business used esp. in the Uniform Commercial Code; see also negligent entrustment compare bail, consign en·trust·ment … to a buyer in the ordinary course of business used esp. in the Uniform Commercial Code; see also negligent entrustment compare bail, consign en·trust·ment n
Accident occasioned by negligence
Matched in: Term Accident occasioned by negligence
Diligence
thought to the most vigilant anxiety; but the law recognizes only three degrees of diligence: (1) Common or ordinary, which men in general exert in respect of their own concerns; the standard is necessarily variable with respect … (exactissima diligentia), slight (levissima diligentia), Story on Bailments, 19. In Scots law, the term 'diligence' signifies execution. See NEGLIGENCE.
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