Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Negligence

Index Negligence

Negligence (Lat. negligentia) is a failure to exercise appropriate and or ethical ruled care expected to be exercised amongst specified circumstances. [1]

62 relations: All England Law Reports, Australian Law Reports, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Bolton v Stone, Calculus of negligence, California, Caparo Industries plc v Dickman, Carelessness, Commonwealth Law Reports, Commonwealth of Nations, Conductor (rail), Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd, Contract, Criminal negligence, Culpability, Damages, Defamation, Defendant, Demurrer, Dillon v. Legg, Donoghue v Stevenson, Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office, Element (criminal law), Fault (legal), Gare Montparnasse, Grant v Australian Knitting Mills, Gross negligence, Ice cream float, Insurance, Intentionality, James Atkin, Baron Atkin, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Judicial functions of the House of Lords, Kaiser Foundation, Latin, Law Reports, Legal liability, List of Law Reports in Australia, Malpractice, Medical malpractice, Mens rea, Neglect, Negligent infliction of emotional distress, Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v The Miller Steamship Co, Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., Plaintiff, Privity, Proximate cause, Punitive damages, Pure economic loss, ..., Rail transport, Reasonable person, Restitutio ad integrum, Roe v Minister of Health, Standard of review, Summary judgment, Sydney, Tort, Train, Trier of fact, United States, United States v. Carroll Towing Co.. Expand index (12 more) »

All England Law Reports

The All England Law Reports (abbreviated in citations to All ER) are a long-running series of law reports covering cases from the court system in England and Wales.

New!!: Negligence and All England Law Reports · See more »

Australian Law Reports

The Australian Law Reports are an unauthorised series of law reports which report cases from the High Court of Australia, Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Courts of the states and territories exercising federal jurisdiction.

New!!: Negligence and Australian Law Reports · See more »

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

New!!: Negligence and Benjamin N. Cardozo · See more »

Bolton v Stone

Bolton v. Stone, 1 All ER 1078 is a leading House of Lords case in the tort of negligence, establishing that a defendant is not negligent if the damage to the plaintiff was not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of his conduct.

New!!: Negligence and Bolton v Stone · See more »

Calculus of negligence

In the United States, the calculus of negligence, also known as the Hand rule, Hand formula, or BPL formula, is a term coined by Judge Learned Hand and describes a process for determining whether a legal duty of care has been breached (see negligence).

New!!: Negligence and Calculus of negligence · See more »

California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

New!!: Negligence and California · See more »

Caparo Industries plc v Dickman

is a leading English tort law case on the test for a duty of care.

New!!: Negligence and Caparo Industries plc v Dickman · See more »

Carelessness

Carelessness refers to the lack of awareness during a behaviour that can result in unintentional consequences.

New!!: Negligence and Carelessness · See more »

Commonwealth Law Reports

The Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) are the authorised reports of decisions of the High Court of Australia.

New!!: Negligence and Commonwealth Law Reports · See more »

Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

New!!: Negligence and Commonwealth of Nations · See more »

Conductor (rail)

A conductor (American and Canadian English) or guard (Commonwealth English) is a train crew member responsible for operational and safety duties that do not involve actual operation of the train.

New!!: Negligence and Conductor (rail) · See more »

Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd

Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd KB 693 is an English tort law and contract case, concerning the implied duty of an innkeeper to offer accommodation to a guest unless for just cause.

New!!: Negligence and Constantine v Imperial Hotels Ltd · See more »

Contract

A contract is a promise or set of promises that are legally enforceable and, if violated, allow the injured party access to legal remedies.

New!!: Negligence and Contract · See more »

Criminal negligence

In criminal law, criminal negligence is a surrogate mens rea (Latin for "guilty mind") required to constitute a conventional as opposed to strict liability offense.

New!!: Negligence and Criminal negligence · See more »

Culpability

Culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction.

New!!: Negligence and Culpability · See more »

Damages

In law, damages are an award, typically of money, to be paid to a person as compensation for loss or injury.

New!!: Negligence and Damages · See more »

Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

New!!: Negligence and Defamation · See more »

Defendant

A defendant is a person accused of committing a crime in criminal prosecution or a person against whom some type of civil relief is being sought in a civil case.

New!!: Negligence and Defendant · See more »

Demurrer

A demurrer is a pleading in a lawsuit that objects to or challenges a pleading filed by an opposing party.

New!!: Negligence and Demurrer · See more »

Dillon v. Legg

Dillon v. Legg, 68 Cal. 2d 728 (1968), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of California that established the tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress.

New!!: Negligence and Dillon v. Legg · See more »

Donoghue v Stevenson

was a landmark court decision in Scots delict law and English tort law by the House of Lords.

New!!: Negligence and Donoghue v Stevenson · See more »

Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office

is a leading case in English tort law.

New!!: Negligence and Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office · See more »

Element (criminal law)

Under United States law, an element of a crime (or element of an offense) is one of a set of facts that must all be proven to convict a defendant of a crime.

New!!: Negligence and Element (criminal law) · See more »

Fault (legal)

Fault, as a legal term, refers to legal blameworthiness and responsibility in each area of law.

New!!: Negligence and Fault (legal) · See more »

Gare Montparnasse

The Gare Montparnasse (Montparnasse Station), officially Paris-Montparnasse, is one of the six large Paris railway termini, in the 14th and 15th arrondissements of Paris.

New!!: Negligence and Gare Montparnasse · See more »

Grant v Australian Knitting Mills

Grant v Australian Knitting Mills,;.

New!!: Negligence and Grant v Australian Knitting Mills · See more »

Gross negligence

Gross negligence is the "lack of slight diligence or care" or "a conscious, voluntary act or omission in reckless disregard of a legal duty and of the consequences to another party." In some jurisdictions a person injured as a result of gross negligence may be able to recover punitive damages from the person who caused the injury or loss.

New!!: Negligence and Gross negligence · See more »

Ice cream float

An ice cream float or ice cream soda (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and East Asia), coke float (United Kingdom and Southeast Asia), or spider (Australia and New Zealand), is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or in a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.

New!!: Negligence and Ice cream float · See more »

Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss.

New!!: Negligence and Insurance · See more »

Intentionality

Intentionality is a philosophical concept and is defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as "the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs".

New!!: Negligence and Intentionality · See more »

James Atkin, Baron Atkin

James Richard Atkin, Baron Atkin, PC, FBA (28 November 1867 – 25 June 1944), known as Dick Atkin, was a lawyer and judge of Irish, Welsh and Australian origin, who practised in England and Wales.

New!!: Negligence and James Atkin, Baron Atkin · See more »

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is the highest court of appeal for certain British territories and Commonwealth countries.

New!!: Negligence and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council · See more »

Judicial functions of the House of Lords

The House of Lords, in addition to having a legislative function, historically also had a judicial function.

New!!: Negligence and Judicial functions of the House of Lords · See more »

Kaiser Foundation

The Kaiser Foundation is a mental health organization based in Canada.

New!!: Negligence and Kaiser Foundation · See more »

Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

New!!: Negligence and Latin · See more »

Law Reports

The Law Reports is the name of a series of law reports published by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting.

New!!: Negligence and Law Reports · See more »

Legal liability

In law, liable means "esponsible or answerable in law; legally obligated." Legal liability concerns both civil law and criminal law and can arise from various areas of law, such as contracts, torts, taxes, or fines given by government agencies.

New!!: Negligence and Legal liability · See more »

List of Law Reports in Australia

This is a list of Law reports covering the decisions of Australian Courts.

New!!: Negligence and List of Law Reports in Australia · See more »

Malpractice

In the law of torts, malpractice, also known as professional negligence, is an "instance of negligence or incompetence on the part of a professional".

New!!: Negligence and Malpractice · See more »

Medical malpractice

Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional deviates from standards in his or her profession, thereby causing injury to a patient.

New!!: Negligence and Medical malpractice · See more »

Mens rea

Mens rea (Law Latin for "guilty mind") is the mental element of a person's intention to commit a crime; or knowledge that one's action or lack of action would cause a crime to be committed.

New!!: Negligence and Mens rea · See more »

Neglect

Neglect is a form of abuse where the perpetrator, who is responsible for caring for someone who is unable to care for themselves, fails to do so.

New!!: Negligence and Neglect · See more »

Negligent infliction of emotional distress

The tort of negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) is a controversial cause of action, which is available in nearly all U.S. states but is severely constrained and limited in the majority of them.

New!!: Negligence and Negligent infliction of emotional distress · See more »

Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v The Miller Steamship Co

Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v The Miller Steamship Co or Wagon Mound (No. 2),.

New!!: Negligence and Overseas Tankship (UK) Ltd v The Miller Steamship Co · See more »

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.

New!!: Negligence and Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. · See more »

Plaintiff

A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.

New!!: Negligence and Plaintiff · See more »

Privity

Privity is the legal term for a close, mutual, or successive relationship to the same right of property or the power to enforce a promise or warranty.

New!!: Negligence and Privity · See more »

Proximate cause

In the law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury.

New!!: Negligence and Proximate cause · See more »

Punitive damages

Punitive damages, or exemplary damages, are damages intended to reform or deter the defendant and others from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the lawsuit.

New!!: Negligence and Punitive damages · See more »

Pure economic loss

Economic loss is a term of art which refers to financial loss and damage suffered by a person such as can be seen only on a balance sheet rather than as physical injury to the person or destruction of property.

New!!: Negligence and Pure economic loss · See more »

Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

New!!: Negligence and Rail transport · See more »

Reasonable person

In law, a reasonable person, reasonable man, or the man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical person of legal fiction crafted by the courts and communicated through case law and jury instructions.

New!!: Negligence and Reasonable person · See more »

Restitutio ad integrum

Restitutio ad integrum or restitutio in integrum is a Latin term which means restoration to original condition.

New!!: Negligence and Restitutio ad integrum · See more »

Roe v Minister of Health

Roe v Minister of Health 2 All ER 131 is an English tort law decision of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales which has had a significant influence on the common law throughout the common law world.

New!!: Negligence and Roe v Minister of Health · See more »

Standard of review

In law, the standard of review is the amount of deference given by one court (or some other appellate tribunal) in reviewing a decision of a lower court or tribunal.

New!!: Negligence and Standard of review · See more »

Summary judgment

In law, a summary judgment (also judgment as a matter of law) is a judgment entered by a court for one party and against another party summarily, i.e., without a full trial.

New!!: Negligence and Summary judgment · See more »

Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

New!!: Negligence and Sydney · See more »

Tort

A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.

New!!: Negligence and Tort · See more »

Train

A train is a form of transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers.

New!!: Negligence and Train · See more »

Trier of fact

A trier of fact, or finder of fact, is a person, or group of persons, who determines facts in a legal proceeding, usually a trial.

New!!: Negligence and Trier of fact · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Negligence and United States · See more »

United States v. Carroll Towing Co.

United States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d. Cir. 1947), is a decision from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that proposed a test to determine the standard of care for the tort of negligence.

New!!: Negligence and United States v. Carroll Towing Co. · See more »

Redirects here:

Negligenc, Negligence (law), Negligence case, Negligence liability, Negligence tort, Negligent, Negligent tort, Negligently, The Law of Negligence, Wanton negligence.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligence

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »