reasonable man
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From 213 U.S. 1 - Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company v. Samuel Calhoun · 1909Most cited · 236 citing opinions
The reasonable man, then, to whose ideal behavior we are to look as the standard of duty, will neither neglect what he can forecast as probable, nor waste his anxiety on events that are barely possible. He will order his precaution by the measure of what appears likely in the known course of things.