Reasonable Care - Law Dictionary Search Results
reasonable care
Matched in: Term reasonable care
Negligence
INJURIA. Consult Beven on Negligence and Smith's Leading Cases, sub tit, Coggs v. Bernard. Negligence is absence of reasonable or prudent care which a reasonable person is expected to observe in a given set of circumstances. But
Act of God
Act of God, a direct, violent, sudden, and irresistible act of nature, which could not, by any reasonable care, have been foreseen or resisted, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423. The general rule is that … of the event is relevant only in considering whether it could or could not have been prevented by reasonable care; if it could not, then it is an act of God which will relief from liability, howsoever trivial
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due care
Matched in: Term due care
Common duty of care
Matched in: Term Common duty of care
Good faith
any malice; thirdly, whether the appellant made any enquiry before he made the allegations; fourthly, whether there are reasons to accept the version that he acted with care and caution and finally whether there is preponderance of
Reasonable
Matched in: Term Reasonable
Reason to believe
that a thing, condition, statement or fact exists. It only means facts which prima facie will convince any reasonable person under the circumstances of the case to form a belief that will impel him to take action … 1167: (1993) Supp 2 SCC 497. The words 'reason to believe' contemplate an objec-tive determination based on intelligent care and deliberation involving judicial review as distingui-shed from a purely subjective consideration, Shri Melicio Fernandes v. Shri Mohan
Guardian
the wisdom and policy of the law to take care of a person and his affairs, who by reason of his imbecility and want of understanding is incapable of acting for his own interest (2 Bacon's Abridgment,
Rash act
with recklessness and with indifference as to the consequences. Criminal negligence is the failure to exercise duty with reasonable and proper care and precaution guarding against injury to the public generally or to any individual in particular.
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