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.
’s negligence.
Contributory negligence.
to go alone across the road.
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;