 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.  Commentaries on the Laws of England - Page 197by Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1875Full view - About this book
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1916 - 848 lehte
...that negligence is either the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by circumstances which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or the doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do (Bouv. Law Diet. (Rawle'srev.) 748), yet,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1888 - 776 lehte
...: " 'Negligence' is defined to be 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." While this request was not given... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - 1859 - 968 lehte
...in Btyth v. The Birmingham Waterworks Company (d): — "Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations...regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." [Bramwell, B.— Suppose a person,... | |
 | Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, John Paxton Norman - 1859 - 982 lehte
...in Blyth v. The Birmingham Waterworks Company (d) : — " Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations...regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." [Bramwell, B. — Suppose a person,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1910 - 726 lehte
...something which a reasonable man, guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do," is substantially correct, which is all that the law requires in an instruction. 6. SAME — when instruction... | |
 | 1873 - 532 lehte
...appearance were usually handled. " Negligence " has been defined to be " the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations...regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do." t It must be determined in all cases... | |
 | 1874 - 436 lehte
...definition is as follows : " 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." In commenting on this definition,... | |
 | John J. Elwell - 1871 - 624 lehte
...Stetson, 17 Maine, 247; Wilmot v. Howard, 39 Vt., 447. 2. Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations...regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent man would not do. Aldereon B. Blythe t. Birmingham Water Works Co.,... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1902 - 1050 lehte
...circumstances duty requires should be given or exercised. It may consist in the omission to do something which a reasonable man guided by those considerations...ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs would do. Foxworthy v. City of Hastiwjx, 23 Nebr., 772, followed." Another definition is this: "The omission... | |
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