REASONABLEPERSON

Reasonable person

The reasonable person is one of many tools for explaining the law to a jury. The "reasonable person" is an emergent concept of common law. While there is consensus in black letter law, there is no universally accepted, technical definition. As a legal fiction, the "reasonable person" is not an average person or a typical person. Instead, the "reasonable person" is a composite of a relevant community's judgment as to how a typical member of said community should behave in situations that might pose a threat of harm to the public.

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reasonable person

Noun

  1. 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."


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