Negligence
idea · 1 work · 6 mentions · 18 anchored passages
negligence · careless · carelessness · due diligence · ordinary care · reasonable care · want of care
in the texts
The Law of Torts
The tort of causing harm through failure to take due care.
Causing harm by negligence is a tort.
The rule as to burden of proof in cases of negligence was held not to apply to a case where the defendant had maintained a dangerous nuisance, and the plaintiff, a young child, had suffered such harm as that nuisance (a row of spikes on the top of a low wall) was likely to cause.
Legal liability for negligence and similar wrongs corresponds approximately to the moral censure on this kind of default.