Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

reasonable

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Abbott (1879)

Definitions from Case Law

From 535 U.S. 391 - US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett · 2002Most cited · 984 citing opinions

no more than "effective." The EEOC regulations do say that reasonable accommodations "enable" a person with a disability to perform the essential functions of a task.

Show all 5 Supreme Court definitions and how they changed over time 1936–2015

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Agreeable to reason; just; proper. Ordinary or usual.

Reasonable act. Such as may fairly, justly, and reasonably be required of a party.

Reasonable and probable canse. Such grounds as justify any one in suspecting another of a crime, and giving him in custody thereon. It la a defense to an action for false imprisonment.

Reasonable creature. Under the common-law rule that murder is taking the life of a "reasonable creature" under the king's peace, with malice aforethought, the phrase means a human being, and has no reference to his mental condition, as it includes a lunatic, an idiot, and even an unborn child. See State v. Jones, Walk. (Miss.) 85.

Reasonable part. In old English law. That share of a man's goods which the law gave to his wife and children after his decease. 2 Bl. Comm. 492. As to reasonable "Allis," "Care," "Diligence," "Doubt," "Notice," "Sklll," and "Time," sce those titles.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Agreeable to reason; conformable to law; ordinary or usual. Reasonable care: the care which men of ordinary prudence are accustomed to employ, v. Ordinary. Reasonable cause: as applied to human action, that which would constrain a person of average intelligence and ordinary prudence; probable cause; legal cause. Reasonable doubt: as applied to jurors, a condition of mind, after consideration and comparison of all the evidence, short of an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of the charge. Reasonable skill: as applied to a physician or surgeon, the skill commonly possessed and employed by men of the profession. Reasonable time: depends on the circumstances of the case.

In old English law. Reasonable part: the share of the goods of a man which the law gave to his wife and children upon his decease.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Occurs in several phrases which have a technical meaning. Reasonable aid. A duty claimed by the lord of the fee, of his tenants holding by knight-service, to marry his daughter, &c. Tomlins; Wharton. Reasonable care, or diligence. Such attention or pains as is fit and proper under the circumstances; such as ought to be taken, having regard to the nature of the duty or act involved. What care is reasonable is a mixed question of law and fact. Reasonable care and skill. " Reasonable care and skill " is a relative phrase, and in its application as a rule or measure of duty will vary in its requirements, according to the circumstances under which the care and skill are to be exerted. Cunningham u. Hall, 4 Allen, 268. Reasonable cause. The "reasonable cause to decree a dissolution " of a corporation, required by Mass. Gen. Stat. ch. 68, § 35, imports more than a mere vague apprehension of some future mischief. Re Franklin Telegraph Co., 119 Mass. 447. The reasonable cause which will justify husband or wife in abandoning each other, within the meaning of the Pennsylvania act defining desertion, is that, and only that, which would entitle the party so separating himself or herself to a divorce. Butler V. Butler, 4 Pa. L. J. E. 284. Reasonable and probable cause, is a phrase often used in connection with the usual ground of defence to an action for false imprisonment, that the defendant had reasonable and probable cause for arresting the plaintiff. The question of reasonable and probable cause is, in England, a question for the judge, but, in Scotland, for the jury. Mozley ^ W. Beasouable doubt, is a term often used, probably pretty well understood, but not easily defined. It does not mean a mere possible doubt; because every thing relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction to a moral certainty of the truth of found, after a careful search of treatises and reports of trials. Donnelly v. State, 28