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Negligence

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

The omission to do something which a reasonable man would do under the circumstances, or the doing of something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.

See 48 Neb. 563, 58 Am. St. Rep. 709, 33 L. R. A. 598, 67 N. W. 479.