neglect
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
Definitions from Case Law
From 197 U.S. 442 - Hackfeld Company v. United States · 1905Most cited · 138 citing opinions
meaning 'not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone.' In the Standard Dictionary the word is defined as meaning 'to fail to perform through carelessness.' And in the Century Dictionary: '1.
United States Code
42 U.S.C. § 10802 — for purposes of this subchapter
The term “neglect” means a negligent act or omission by any individual responsible for providing services in a facility rendering care or treatment which caused or may have caused injury or death to a 1 individual with mental illness or which placed a 1 individual with mental illness at risk of injury or death, and includes an act or omission such as the failure to establish or carry out an appropriate individual program plan or treatment plan for a 1 individual with mental illness, the failure to provide adequate nutrition, clothing, or health care to a 1 individual with mental illness, or the failure to provide a safe environment for a 1 individual with mental illness, including the failure to maintain adequate numbers of appropriately trained staff.
42 U.S.C. § 14041 — in this section
the term "neglect" means the failure of a caregiver or fiduciary to provide the goods or services that are necessary to maintain the health or safety of an individual in later life.
42 U.S.C. § 3002 — for the purposes of this chapter (2 versions over time)
The term “neglect” means—
(A) the failure of a caregiver (as defined in paragraph (18)(B)) or fiduciary to provide the goods or services that are necessary to maintain the health or safety of an older individual; or
(B) self-neglect.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To omit, as to neglect business, or payment, or duty, or work. It does not generally imply carelessness or imprudence, but simply an omission to do or perform some work, duty, or act. Rosenplaenter v. Roessle, 54 N. Y. 262. See Negligence.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Omission; failure to do something that one is bound to do; carelessness. The term is used in the law of ballment as synonymous with "negligence." But the latter word is the closer translation of the Latin "negligentia." As used in respect to the payment of money, refusal is the failure to pay money when demanded; neglect is the failure to pay money which the party is bound to pay without demand. Kimball v. Rowland, 6 Gray (Mass.) 224. The term means to omit, as to neglect business or payment or duty or work, and is generally used in this sense. It does not generally imply carelessness or imprudence, but simply an omission to do or perform some work, duty, or act. Rosenplaenter v. Roessle, 54 N. Y. 262.
— Culpable neglect. In this phrase, the word "culpable" means not criminal, but censurable; and, when the term is applied to the omission by a person to preserve the means of enforcing his own rights, censurable is more nearly an equivalent. As he has merely lost a right of action which he might voluntarily relinquish, and has wronged nobody but himself, culpable neglect conveys the idea of neglect which exists where the loss can fairly be ascribed to the party's own carelessness, improvidence, or folly. Bank v. Wright, 8 Allen (Mass) 121; Bennett v. Bennett, 93 Me 241, 44 Atl. 894
— Willful neglect. Willful neglect is the neglect of the husband to provide for his wife the common necessaries of life, he having the ability to do so; or it is the failure to do so by reason of idleness, profligacy, or dissipation. Civil Code Cal. § 105.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Omission or forbearance to do a thing that can be done or that is required to be done. Does not generally imply carelessness or imprudence; simply, an omission to do or perform some work, duty, or act. Willful neglect. An intentional failure to perform a manifest duty in which the public has an interest, or which is important to the person injured, in either preventing or avoiding injury. See Fault; Negligence.
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Means to omit, as to neglect business or payment or duty or work, and is generally used in this sense. It does not generally imply carelessness or imprudence, but simply an omission to do or perform some work, duty, or act. Rosenplaenter v. Roessle, 54 N. Y. 262. As used in respect to the payment of money, refusal is the failure to pay money when demanded; neglect is the failure to pay money which the party is bound to pay without demand. Kimball o. Rowland, 6 Gray, 224. The neglect of an attorney to pay over money collected for his client is a "neglect" in a "professional employment," within the exception of the act of July 12, 1842, abolishing imprisonment, &c. Wills V. Kane, 2 Grant Cas. 60.