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Definition 2024
reasonable_person
reasonable person
See also: reasonable-person
English
Noun
reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)
- (law) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
- Used other than as an idiom: see reasonable, person.
Translations
a fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society
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