Sentences with phrase «standards of reasonable men»

A child's welfare has to be assessed by the standards of reasonable men and women in 2012, not by the standard of their parents.

[83] In my opinion the finding of driving without due care and attention in Provincial Court was akin to a finding of negligence against Mr. Weidmann, because his manner of driving was found to have departed from the standard of a reasonable man and he failed to avoid liability by proving he took all reasonable care in the circumstances.

Not exact matches

Approximately 50 percent of all American households keep pets, so it is also imperative that nuisance laws are written using «reasonable man» standards so that unreasonable or hypersensitive individuals can not hold an entire neighborhood hostage by trying to enforce irrational or overreaching demands.

I suppose where the civil law standard has, in the place of the common law's «reasonable man», the «bon père de famille», one may expect some paternalism.

The existence of reasonable ground (a lesser standard that proof beyond a reasonable doubt) requires there be some evidence of both a guilty act (actus rea) and a guilty mind (mens rea).