reasonable person
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See also: reasonable-person
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)
- (law) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reasonable, person.
Translations[edit]
a fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society
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