reasonable man

reasonable man
a judicial standard of conduct used to determine liability, especially in relation to negligence. The need to charge juries has brought forth many folksy definitions, the most famous being the man on the Clapham omnibus (or the omnibus of whichever city the court sits in). See Glasgow Corporation v . Muir [1943] AC 448.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.


reasonable man
n. An imaginary person who is used as the legal measuring stick against which to determine whether or not a defendant exercised appropriate caution in an undertaking, or whether he exhibited negligence by not taking the precautions that the hypothetical reasonable person may have taken under the given circumstances, or by doing something that a reasonable person would not have done.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.

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