Ordinary Skill
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Such skill as a person conversant with the matter undertaken might be reasonably supposed to have.
11 M. & W. 113; Percy v. Millaudon, 8 Mart. N. S. (La.) 68, 75; Boon v. Murphy, 108 N. C. 187, 12 S. E. 1032.
See Negligence. One who undertakes to act in a professional or other clearly defined capacity is bound to exercise the skill appropriate to such capacity; Webb, Pollock, Torts 26; though the undertaking be gratuitous; Leighton v. Sargent, 31 N. II.
119, 64 Am. Dec. 323.