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Ordinary diligence

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

Black's Law Dictionary

that degree of care which men of common prudence generally exercise in their affairSj in the country and the age in which they live.

Erie Bank v. Smith, 3 Brewst. (Pa.) 9; Zell v. Dunkle, 156 Pa. 353, 27 Atl. 38: Railroad Co. v. Scott. 42 111. 148; Briggs v. Taylor, 28 Vt. 184; Railroad Co. v. Fisher, 49 Kan. 460, 30 Pac. 462; Rnilroad Co. v. Mitchell, 92 Ga. 77, 18 S. E. 290.

Defined under Diligence in Black's Law Dictionary.