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The doctrine of contributory negligence was dominant in U.S. jurisprudence in the 19th and 20th century. [3] The English case Butterfield v.Forrester is generally recognized as the first appearance, although in this case, the judge held the plaintiff's own negligence undermined their argument that the defendant was the proximate cause of the injury. [3]
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The Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. c. 28) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which allows a judge to apportion liability for compensatory damages as he feels to be "just and equitable" between a tortfeasor and an injured person who was partly to blame.
Negligence, nuisance, reasonable foreseeability Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Company (1856) 11 Ex Ch 781 [ 1 ] concerns reasonableness in the law of negligence . It is famous for its classic statement of what negligence is and the standard of care to be met.
Comparative negligence, called non-absolute contributory negligence outside the United States, is a partial legal defense that reduces the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim, based upon the degree to which the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to cause the injury.
Impleader is a United States civil court procedural device before trial in which a defendant joins a third party into a lawsuit because that third party is liable to an original defendant.
Negligence per se, a legal doctrine whereby an act is considered negligent because it violates a statute or regulation; Negligence in employment; Calculus of negligence; Comparative negligence; Contributory negligence; Criminal negligence; Excusable negligence; Gross negligence; Neglect; Professional negligence in English Law
Words and Phrases Legally Defined is a law dictionary. It contains statutory and judicial definitions of words and phrases. It is one of the two "major" dictionaries of its type (the other being Stroud's). Both dictionaries have entries not contained in the other. [1] This dictionary is "useful". [2]