Sentences with phrase «someone of ordinary prudence»

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.

For example, in a strict liability case, there is a duty to prevent foreseeable injury by doing what a reasonable man of ordinary prudence would have done.

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.

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

As the wearing of helmets may afford protection in some circumstances, it must follow that a cyclist of ordinary prudence would wear one, no matter whether on a long or a short trip or whether on quiet suburban roads or a busy main road.

Negligence is defined as «A failure to behave with the level of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised under the same circumstances.»

Not exact matches

But rather than addressing these problems as part of the ongoing, ordinary work of political prudence, American conservatism fixes on ever - lower tax rates and deregulation as singular imperatives.

The problem with Skimpolism is that it ignores, and refuses to acknowledge, the sources and causes of its own good fortune: the enormous human enterprise of toil, commerce, and distribution, the attendant fatigue, risk, worry, and vexation, the requisite virtues of foresight, prudence, honesty, and diligence — all of which are necessary for something as ordinary as a peach or a glove to end up in Skimpole's dining room.

All of the areas of the credit market where ordinary prudence was being ignored, and in the short run, leverage was increasing, because is paid to do so in a rising market.

Legal malpractice in the 7th Edition of Black's defined as: «A lawyer's failure to exercise the degree of care and skill, prudence, and diligence that an ordinary and reasonable lawyer would use under similar circumstances.

Since the late 1800s, the courts had consistently held that liability would be imposed on attorneys for want of such skill, prudence and diligence as lawyers of ordinary skill and capacity commonly possess and exercise.