Excusable negligence or excusable neglect is a legal concept used in some jurisdictions to allow certain types of neglect during a legal proceeding. Examples...
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negligence Comparative negligence Contributory negligence Criminal negligence Excusable negligence Gross negligence Neglect Professional negligence in...
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encoded with opposing meanings. Absurdity Excusable negligence: If a behavior is excusable, it is not negligence. Gödel's incompleteness theorems: and Tarski's...
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Standard of care (section Negligence per se)
The standard of care is important because it can determine the level of negligence required to state a valid cause of action. In the business world the standard...
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reads "Where the offender acts in a state of extreme emotion that is excusable in the circumstances, or in a state of profound psychological stress,...
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individuals had lied in testimony before Congress, their actions were excusable because they were in support of the goal of fighting communism. Hyde argued...
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damage caused was intentional or involuntary, whether any error of law was excusable or inexcusable, the fact that the position taken by a Community institution...
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Excessive bail – Excise – Exclusionary rule – Excommunication – Exculpatory – Excusable neglect – Excuse – Execution – Execution – Execution warrant – Executioner –...
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possible impeachment case. They assessed that it was understandable and excusable that Frederiksen did not become aware of the legal issue, because no one...
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speed, and an illegal or negligent custom or practice is not in itself excusable. Safe speed approximates the inferred design speed adjusted for environmental...
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reduced-size copies (or preparation of reduced-size derivative works) were both excusable as fair use because the defendant's use of the work did not actually or...
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case, but which, without negligence on the part of the defendant, was not made, either through duress or fraud or excusable mistake; these facts not appearing...
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abuse of power, an infringement of the rights of an individual, and not excusable because the illness which followed had implications for science." The...
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misunderstanding. There is some authority to the effect that a mistake is excusable if the contract denier is not to blame for the mistake, in that he behaved...
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prosecution of the case, and the delay caused by court congestion. While more excusable than individual derelictions of duty, there had to come a time when systemic...
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