Failure to use that degree of care which an ordinary person of reasonable prudence would use under the given circumstances.
Doctrine Of Negligence
Rests on duty of every person to exercise due care in his conduct toward others from which injury may result.
Contributory Negligence
Conduct by plaintiff which is a contributing cause which cooperates with the defendant’s negligence in causing the plaintiffs harm.
Gross Negligence
The deliberate or intentional failure to perform a clear duty in reckless disregard of the consequences on the life or property of another.
Ordinary Negligence
The failure to exercise care of an ordinarily prudent person in similar circumstances.
Wilful, Wanton Or Reckless Negligence
When one intentionally acts unreasonably in disregard of a risk known to him or which is obvious and so great as to make it highly probable that harm would follow.
Negligence In Law
Such as that which grows out of failure to observe a duty prescribed by law
Negligence Per Se That which is self-evident, i.e., conduct which clearly was not that of a careful person.