Reasonable
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Occurs in several phrases which have a technical meaning.
Reasonable aid
A duty claimed by the lord of the fee, of his tenants holding by knight-service, to marry his daughter, &c. Tomlins; Wharton. Reasonable care, or diligence. Such attention or pains as is fit and proper under the circumstances; such as ought to be taken, having regard to the nature of the duty or act involved. What care is reasonable is a mixed question of law and fact. Reasonable care and skill. " Reasonable care and skill " is a relative phrase, and in its application as a rule or measure of duty will vary in its requirements, according to the circumstances under which the care and skill are to be exerted. Cunningham u.
Hall, 4 Allen, 268.
Reasonable cause. The "reasonable cause to decree a dissolution " of a corporation, required by Mass. Gen. Stat. ch. 68, § 35, imports more than a mere vague apprehension of some future mischief.
Re Franklin Telegraph Co., 119 Mass. 447.
The reasonable cause which will justify husband or wife in abandoning each other, within the meaning of the Pennsylvania act defining desertion, is that, and only that, which would entitle the party so separating himself or herself to a divorce.
Butler V. Butler, 4 Pa. L. J. E. 284.
Reasonable and probable cause, is a phrase often used in connection with the usual ground of defence to an action for false imprisonment, that the defendant had reasonable and probable cause for arresting the plaintiff. The question of reasonable and probable cause is, in England, a question for the judge, but, in Scotland, for the jury. Mozley ^ W. Beasouable doubt, is a term often used, probably pretty well understood, but not easily defined. It does not mean a mere possible doubt; because every thing relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of found, after a careful search of treatises and reports of trials.
Donnelly v. State, 28