Contributory Negligence
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Contributory negligence, when set up as a defense to an action for injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, Means any want of ordinary care on the part of the person injured, (or on the part of another whose negligence is imputable to him,) which combined and concurred with the defendant’s negligence, and contributed to the injury as a proximate cause thereof, and as an element without which the injury would not have occurred,