Sentences with phrase «person of ordinary prudence»

Though the commonly accepted standard is that of «an average person of ordinary prudence,» that standard can still be difficult to ascertain.

Any adult who owes a duty of reasonable care toward a child may be found to have breached that duty of care if the adult fails to take the precautions any person of ordinary prudence would take to prevent a child from sustaining a burn injury of any kind.

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Inferences from common events must have quickly entered into consideration, being so intimately a part of ordinary prudence; and with the personalist interpretation of environment, supposed action by that environment would have the same relevance as action by another person.