 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 938 pages
...shall not injure another." Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. 5 Wait, Act. & Def. ยง 3, p. 563. Ordinarily a man may use his own as he pleases; but when he unlawfully... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1288 pages
...petition. Negligence hns been dffined to be 'the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.' It is 'want of due diligence, whether the party at fault Is an individual, a private corporation, or... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1894 - 712 pages
...omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. It is not absolute or intrinsie, but is always relative to some circumstances of time, place or person."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1224 pages
...Negligence is denned to be "the omission to do something which a reasonable, prudent man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the...human affairs, would do, or doing something which a reasonable, prudent man would not do, under all the circumstances surrounding nnd characterizing the... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1894 - 842 pages
...646; Frace o. New York LE & WR Co., 68 Hun, 825; 22 NYS Rep. 968; Adams v. Yonng, 44 Ohio defined as " the omission to do something which a reasonable man,...guided upon those considerations which ordinarily St. 80; Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Kerr, 62 Pa. St. 353; Atchison T. & SF R. Co. v. Stafford, 12 Kan. 354;... | |
 | William Francis Bailey - Employers' liability - 1894 - 674 pages
...care, such as a reasonably prudent person will always adopt for the security of his person or property. Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1894 - 842 pages
...applicable to both. Definition of negligence. The general rule was thus stated by Baron Alderson : " Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon tho.se Definition of negligence. The American cases defining negligence are in harmony wHh the text, vide... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1008 pages
...constitute negligence there must either be the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. (Foxworthy v. Hastings, 31... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 910 pages
...was the omission to do something that a reasonable, prudent man, guided by those considerations that ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something that a prudent or reasonable man would not do under all the circumstances of the particular transaction... | |
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Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do. 
