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Cautel

Caution prudence wariness

Prudent

conduct practically wise judicious careful discreet sensible opposed to rash as a prudent man dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought evincing prudence as prudent behavior

Diligence

take of their own concerns. (3) Low or slight, which is that which persons of less than common prudence, or indeed of no prudence at all, take of their own concerns. The Civil Law is in conformity

Negligence per se

a statute or valid municipal ordinance, or because it is so palpably opposed to the dictates of common prudence that it can be said without hesitation or doubt that no careful person would have been guilty of

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 in

Accident, Accidental

and its occurrence as a consequence of such act is not so probable that a person of ordinary prudence ought, under the circumstances in which it is done, to take reasonable precautions against it. The idea of

Prude

A woman of affected modesty reserve or coyness one who is overscrupulous or sensitive one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech

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