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Definition of Comparative negligence
1. Noun. (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff.
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comparative Negligence
Literary usage of Comparative negligence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of the Law of Torts by Edwin Ames Jaggard (1895)
"SAME—comparative negligence. 276. The doctrine of comparative negligence is not
generally recognized. Courts decline to apportion damage according to the ..."
2. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"IX comparative negligence may be dismissed in a few words. ... The rule of
comparative negligence is never applied so as to allow recovery by a plaintiff ..."
3. A Treatise on the Federal Employers' Liability and Safety Appliance Acts by William Wheeler Thornton (1909)
"comparative negligence.—The provisions of Section three radically change the
common law rule, and it is said to have introduced the rule of comparative ..."
4. The Law of Torts by Melville Madison Bigelow (1908)
"comparative negligence. In some of the American States, it may be noticed in
passing, a doctrine of ' comparative negligence' takes the place of the ..."
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