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Adequate care

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Such care as a man of ordinary prudence would himself take under similar circumstances to avoid accident; care proportionate to the risk to be incurred.

Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co., 8 Houst. (Del.) 529, 18 Atl. 818,