 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 960 sider
...approval by the courts, " is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct...which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." 1 As a limitation, framed for the purpose of excluding accidents from the category of negligence, this... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 sider
...negligence being defined to be " the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct...something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do;"5 negligence, moreover, not being " absolute or intrinsic," but " always relative to some circumstances... | |
 | 1875 - 842 sider
...180. Hence negligence is said to be, the omission to do something which a reasonable man guided upon the considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct...something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do : Ernst v. Hudson River RR Co., 3d NY 927. More than this ordinary care the law does not require (Sh.... | |
 | 1875 - 870 sider
...approval by the courts, that it "is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct...which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." Thus it is seen that the concluding words of our author's elaborate argument call up by their very... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875 - 858 sider
...Negligence may be defined to be the omission to do something r^oni which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do (I). Negligence thus defined... | |
 | William Wait - 1878 - 1004 sider
...carelessness. It is defined to be "the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct...which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." ALDERSON, B., in Blyth v. Birmingham Water Works Co., 11 Exch. 781, 784. See, also, Bizzell v. Booker,... | |
 | Morris March Estee - 1878 - 648 sider
...Foster, 9 How. Pr. 37; Brewer v. Temple, 15 Id. 286. ACTIONS FOR INJURIES RESULTING FBOM NEGLIGENCE. 115. Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do; or doing something... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1878 - 696 sider
...not have been foreseen. There must be an omission to do something which a reasonable man, acting upon considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or the doing something which such a man would not do. Probability of danger is to be taken into account,... | |
 | Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes - 1880 - 788 sider
...Negligence " Negligence is the omission to do something which ae Q ' " reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which " ordinarily regulate the conduct...affairs, would " do ; or doing something which a prudent or reasonable " man would not do." Ignorance of the existence of a cause of mischief has, moreover,... | |
 | 1881 - 1112 sider
...relative term, and is defined to be "the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct...affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent or reasonable man would not do. Moreover, it is not absolute or intrinsic, but always relates to some... | |
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Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. 
