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Definition of Ordinary care
1. Noun. The care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ordinary Care
Literary usage of Ordinary care
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"If you find that the loss was incurred or contributed to by the incompetency of
the master, or want of ordinary care apd skill in navigation, your verdict ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1920)
"What may be negligence in one case may not Le want of ordinary care in another,
and the question of negligence is, therefore, ultimately a question of fact, ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"enable him, with the exercise of ordinary care, to perform the duties of his
employment with reasonable safety to himself"—citing 26 ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield (1888)
"Want of ordinary care" and "gross 2See definitions of ordinary care negligence"
are not equivalent terms in Norfolk, &c. R. Co. v. Ormsby, 27 (Chicago, &c. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"Where the employer has neglected to use ordinary care in the selection of tiie
... Where the losses were caused by the employer's own want of ordinary care. ..."
6. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1823)
"According to die laws of France, one takes common or ordinary care, ... This also
was the Roman law, the hirer uses a horse widi ordinary care, ..."
7. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"An instruction that "ordinary care" as used in instructions given meant such care
... A charge defining "ordinary care" as "that degree of care which men of ..."
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