Negligence
101gross negligence — ➔ negligence * * * gross negligence UK US noun [U] LAW ► a serious lack of care or attention towards a person or thing that you are responsible for: »When a landlord exhibits gross negligence and refuses to properly maintain his properties,… …
102comparative negligence — the negligence of the defendant in an action to recover damages for negligence as compared with that of the plaintiff, the comparison being made for the purpose of applying the rule of admiralty, which has been adopted by statute for negligence… …
103concurrent negligence — The contributory negligence of the plaintiff in an action for negligence, it and the negligence of the defendant both contributing to produce the injury for which damages are claimed. Dyerson v Union Pacific Railroad Co. 74 Kan 528, 87 P 680. The …
104contributory negligence — A breach of duty on the part of the plaintiff in an action to recover damages for negligence to exercise the standard of care, which is ordinary care, the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise, for his own safety, such breach… …
105degrees of negligence — The classes or grades of negligence into which it has been divided by statutes and judicial decisions, ranging from slight negligence to that which is gross, wilful, or wanton. The majority of common law authorities have disapproved the concept… …
106imputed negligence — The negligence of one person which, by reason of his relation to another person, is chargeable to that person. 38 Am J1st Negl § 234. A ground for defeating liability for negligence by charging the plaintiff with the concurrent negligence of a… …
107wanton negligence — A paradoxical expression, since the term wanton infers premeditation, knowledge, or consciousness, while negligence implies inadvertence; apparently signifying an act done or omitted to be done in such reckless disregard of the security and… …
108Auto-négligence — L auto négligence est une condition comportementale dans laquelle un individu néglige ses propres besoins, tels que l hygiène personnelle, l habillage, la nourriture ou la médication[1]. Une auto négligence extrême est connue sous le terme de… …
109culpable negligence — n: criminal negligence at negligence Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
110joint negligence — In case of joint negligence of several people, proximately causing accident, they act together in concert and either do something together which they should not do or fail to do something which they are together obligated to do under… …
