Assumption Of Risk
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A term of the contract of employment, either express or implied from the circumstances of the employment, by which the servant agrees that dangers obviously incident to the discharge of his duty shall be at the servant's risk. Assumption of risk is to be distinguished from contributory negligence in that the first rests on the law of contracts, while the latter rests on the law of torts.