Contributory negligence
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contributory negligence · Contributory Negligence · the doctrine of contributory negligence
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The Law of Torts
Rule that a person is not liable where the principal cause of harm is the injured person's own negligence, with numerous illustrations and qualifying rules.
A person who suffers harm by the negligence of another is not guilty of contributory negligence by reason only that he is negligent, or is otherwise a wrongdoer, in matter irrelevant to the harm suffered by him.
A person who suffers harm by the negligence of another is not guilty of contributory negligence by reason only that, being by the other’s negligence exposed to imminent danger, he does not act in the manner best fitted to avoid that danger.
(4) Where by this Act any person is declared to be liable as for negligence, the rules of law concerning contributory negligence are applicable.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
A modern legal doctrine noted as closely anticipated by the ancient Irish Law of Civil Wrong.
I quite agree with one of the Editors that, in the ancient Irish Law of Civil Wrong, there is a singularly close approach to modern doctrines on the subject of Contributory Negligence;