Necessary diligence

That degree of diligence which a person placed in a particular situation must exercise in order to entitle him to the protection of the law in respect to rights or claims growing out of that situation, or to avoid being left without redress on account of his own culpable carelessness or negligence. Garahy v. Bayley. 25 Tex. Supp. 302 ; Sanderson v. Brown, 57 Me. 312.

— Ordinary diligence. 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.