Negligence

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• Negligence is a factor to be reckoned with in determining the liability of one who has damaged another in any way.
• The negligence is the cause of the damage.
• WHAT IS NEGLIGENCE? Negligence is the doing of something which a reasonably prudent person would not do, or the failure to do something which a reasonably prudent person would do, under circumstances similar to those shown by the evidence.
• Negligence is a 'legal cause' of damage if it directly and in natural and continuous sequence produces or contributes substantially to producing such damage, so it can reasonably be said that if not for the negligence, the loss, injury or damage would not have occurred.
• NEGLIGENCE The tort of negligence is: doing something that a person using ordinary care would not do, or not doing something that a person using ordinary care would do.

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