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Sentence Examples If the tardiness is due to negligence and causes a loss of income, then you are entitled to recover some of the loss. Here, knowledge and intent or culpable negligence would seem to be required for criminal liability. Hypothetically speaking, there is a range of different ways that you could go about tightening the definition of negligence. Now if that is not a form of culpable negligence, then I do not know what is. A Dalit woman who had come to a local private nursing home for treatment of piles, allegedly died because of doctor's negligence. Three high-ranking North Ossetian and Ingush police officers were charged with negligence in October. We should record in particular that we have found no evidence of deliberate distortion or of culpable negligence. The issue of negligence is complex and you know, has been pleaded significantly within the documents that have been filed in court. That, of course, does not mean that the appellant was guilty of contributory negligence. In respect of the second flood, the claimants were not guilty of contributory negligence. Whether a plaintiff is guilty of contributory negligence is a question of fact. The amount of the judgment entered at trial reflected the reduction made on account of the plaintiff's contributory negligence. Negligence, or contributory negligence, will suffice either to defeat the claim or to reduce the award of damages. Damages were reduced by two thirds for the deceased's contributory negligence. It was not the role of the coroner's court to decide on matters of alleged medical negligence. Chapter 16 is devoted to the review of decided cases related to medical negligence. He said the city has to assemble all their men and equipment in case a court order of negligence is issued. In the late nineteenth century negligence did not recognise injury caused by psychiatric means as compensable. This means that any additional costs which are due to her negligence may be deducted from her bill. In the second week of August the government was obliged to answer accusations of negligence and indifference. Show More Sentences Yes, this is due to my own negligence, but a helpful reminder from a travel agent would make all the difference. There are enough tragedies in our day-to-day lives without adding some due to our own personal negligence. She had learned the hard way a long time ago that forgetfulness was considered negligence. We now know the UN was an organisation steeped in corruption, graft and criminal negligence. The municipality is pursued for its vicarious liability for the negligence of its employee. She gave birth to a healthy child, and the respondents accepted liability for negligence. But what relevantly here could be said to be the damage due to the negligence of an independent contractor engaged by the occupier? A worker may be so experienced and have so misconducted himself or herself that a finding of contributory negligence is warranted. The negligence may not be related to the actual driving of the motor vehicle. In many cases the application of the rule raises the question whether the licensee has been guilty of contributory negligence. Negligence depends on a breach of duty, whereas contributory negligence does not. There is no exclusion of gross negligence, serious fault, or anything of a like nature. In that case a vessel sank through the negligence of her owners in the River Dee obstructing navigation. A claim is defined as a claim for damages for negligence arising out of a motor vehicle accident. It is an unpardonable negligence to place the ornaments arbitrarily how they wish. That kind of negligence shows clear contempt for our generation's wants and needs. The issues of negligence and the waivers of liability are matters to be determined at trial. Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it. Dr Tynan claims he has suffered extreme pain due to the injury which he blames on the negligence of the hotel. If he fails to do so, he is held liable, whereas in an action for negligence the legal burden in most cases remains throughout on the plaintiff. Show More Sentences We do not want to minimise the importance of clinical negligence as a matter of concern to the health service. The appellate court affirmed 51 acquittals and 19 findings of medical negligence by defendant physicians. A motion by the Plaintiffs for a summary judgment as to the Defendants' liability and negligence was dismissed. If the defendant adduces no evidence there is nothing to rebut the inference of negligence and the plaintiff will have proved his case. He contends that the judge was wrong to have dismissed his claims in negligence, agency and trust. He subsequently died and his mother continued his proceedings for medical negligence as administratrix of his estate. Two years later the negligence claim was thrown out but the employer was ruled liable. So, its causal relationship with the primary negligence is very proximate and most immediate, in our submission. Jason stares at Daphne, surprised by the admission that Doug's negligence bothers her. It is not necessary however, to prove that the defenders' negligence was the only cause of injury. The Court of Appeal held that the defendant bank had acted without negligence. It is so easy to be wise after the event and to condemn as negligence that which was only a misadventure. No one suggests the jurors could be sued for negligence because they made a wrong decision. We say that the liability resulted from the acts or omissions of negligence and the act or omission in relation to the trespass. Before the Act, of course, a finding of contributory negligence defeated the claim altogether. In another case, a judge dismissed a claim for negligence where a 12-year-old pupil broke her ankle when descending a staircase. The law that had to be applied is the law of negligence, in essence, perhaps the laws of evidence. The school argued it should be immune from such negligence lawsuits, and a trial court had agreed. His lawyer has suggested that the jury could convict him of manslaughter by gross negligence for not rescuing her. The confusion develops focus then, security men wading in, jumping on a middle-aged man who is shouting something about medical negligence. Show More Sentences It's right to question, as the Royal Gazette does today, whether such gross negligence means the Government is fit to govern. A facility owner will still have the option to file a negligence claim against the architect of a noncompliant facility. We simply can't let these vets go without help, because we saw after Vietnam what the long-term repercussions of that negligence can be. In the ordinary way the purchaser in this example will not know of the negligence of his valuer or solicitor when completing the purchase. Add to these charges the negligence and incompetence shown throughout this sorry affair. A fire breaks out suddenly in the house of the Empress, due to negligence of one of her maids. For in the realm of diagnosis and treatment negligence is not established by preferring one respectable body of opinion to another. Sometimes an accident may occur in circumstances in which accidents do not normally happen unless there has been negligence by someone. The insurers, having paid a claim made by the lessees of the refinery, brought against the defendants a subrogated claim for negligence. Counsel for the appellants argues that those words are not sufficiently precise to exclude liability for negligence. Someone else's negligence left me with a painful neck, sore knees, an unrepairable car, and a hole in my pocket. The judge then considered the possibility of the defendants being vicariously liable for negligence of their social workers. There may be no negligence in the driving of the motor vehicle but there still be cover provided by the policy. The fact is that our legal system gives victims a tiny fraction of the actual harm caused to them by the negligence of others. Where damage is the gist of the action, as in negligence, the claimant must prove actual loss. Even where an employer owes a non-delegable duty he is not liable for the collateral or casual negligence of an independent contractor. It thus became the norm to bring case where the negligence of the defendant produced either immediate or consequential damage. Lord Cooke said that the label nuisance or negligence was of no real significance. This duty arises both under the contract of employment and under the common law principles of negligence. As a general rule, however, there is no liability in tortious negligence for an omission, unless the defendant is under some pre-existing duty. Show More Sentences The label nuisance or negligence is treated as being of no real significance. In contrast the claim against PW is for unliquidated damages for professional negligence. As such a suit for malicious prosecution must be based on more than recklessness or gross negligence. He is seeking unspecified damages from the airlines for personal injury, negligence and assault and battery. His Lordship added that it may be that these considerations would also justify a finding of negligence. Wong accused his lawyers of negligence and his opponent's lawyers of fiddling their charges. Only if there was no intent and no negligence as to the unlawfulness, is the accused not liable criminally. Plainly individual acts of negligence will not in the ordinary way constitute a breach of this duty. Nor, in my judgment, can it be seriously argued that the negligence of the Respondents breaks the chain of causation. If the situation arose through that person's purposeful negligence, however, then he is considered a purposeful wrongdoer. We do not need the New Zealand taxpayer paying for the negligence of overseas corporates. Physicians known to be guilty of gross negligence are allowed to continue to practice. Lawyers who obviously suborn perjury are not disbarred. The action arises out of a claim by the Plaintiffs against their former solicitors for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. They are the result of negligence and for that we ought to have the right to sue for damages. One of our reviewers suggested that the patient had grounds to sue for negligence. Look, I think doctors feel terribly beleaguered in general about medical negligence litigation. Although ideologically-motivated negligence is damnable enough, it is a far cry from intentional and explicit support for mass murder. The Tribunal administers the tort of negligence, the torts connected with breach of statutory duty. The torts of trespass to goods, conversion, and negligence, may all be relevant here. In an action against the tug owners, there was a plea of contributory negligence in failing to cast off the towline when danger was imminent. Show More Sentences On day two, by reason of supervening events, the defendant's negligence ceases to be a cause of that continued trading. Until two years ago, we had resources so paltry that it amounted to criminal negligence. Taking the claims to court is the only way to recover lost compensation after the firms deny negligence. Yes then there is no negligence, and if there's no negligence it doesn't matter how injured those people are, they will not recover compensation. They could be facing charges of criminal negligence causing death and injury. If unable to attribute the injury to the carelessness and negligence of others, the patient will often become blameful of self. The pleading against the solicitor is in the alternative, in negligence for breach of duty of care and in equity for breach of fiduciary duty. Here we discuss an accident that occurred in a warehouse due to the negligence of a forklift truck driver. I find that there was no breach of a duty of care and no negligence on the part of the defendants and the action is dismissed. When that was the case, were they regarded as being immune from liability for negligence? The present ministerial team at the Ministry of Defence has clung stoically to the traditional line that the negligence verdict was correct. You don't explain away a near catastrophe at an atomic power plant by saying that it was caused by negligence. The death or serious injury of a Soldier due to negligence or carelessness cannot be overlooked and can always be avoided. This was negligence pure and simple, confused by an ill-fitting and woolly disguise of nuisance. People hesitate to approach consumer courts either because of negligence or due to some inherent fear about the very idea of filing a case. He said prosecutors were opening a criminal investigation into possible negligence. Both reports are a damning indictment of the criminal negligence of the military. I made a few gaffs due to my negligence, so hopefully you'll learn from my mistakes. Employers must be held responsible for negligence over worker safety and be punished accordingly. Why should I suffer because of somebody's negligence, carelessness, stupidity or even a deliberate act on his or her part? Show More Sentences However, war, natural disaster and negligence has led to their gradual disappearance. Transportation of bigger pieces is a difficult proposition as any negligence in handling would result in breakage. You hear judges write that the employee is guilty of contributory negligence. It is usually said that there is no age below which, as a matter of law, a child cannot be guilty of contributory negligence. The case concerned a claim for damages arising from the negligence of a solicitor instructed in a conveyancing transaction. Initially, the Plaintiffs framed their action against UPI alleging breach of contract and negligence. Their claim is based in contract and tort and includes allegations of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. The judge said it was negligence on the part of the Karnataka state government not to take steps to arrest the forest dacoit and his colleagues. Contributory negligence is based on carelessness whereas assumption of risk is based on venturousness. Furthermore, the firm would have been liable if the embryos had been destroyed due to their negligence, he said. The precautions taken publicly are rendered null and void by the amount of negligence which goes on in private. Any casualty due to their negligence must be put up for a PIL and proper compensation demanded. A woman who gave birth prematurely after she was held up at gunpoint by a prison escapee has successfully sued the government for negligence. Workers in these companies have complained of negligence by new owners and the failure to invest in safety. But by no stretch of the imagination can these mistakes be described as gross negligence. The employers were not vicariously liable for his negligence. We must remember that in a fair society, an individual who has genuinely incurred loss due to the negligence of another, should have some recompense for that loss. Even if the issues are justiciable, the courts will not accept that a negligence action can be brought unless it would be just and reasonable for a duty of care to exist. It would be perfectly possible for a criminal code to provide separate crimes of negligence, with lower maximum sentences, at appropriate points in the hierarchy of offences. Venus trine Neptune drapes you in glamour, making even your negligence chic. Show More Sentences Even a brief lapse of alertness constitutes gross negligence. But the major point is the question of redividing contributory negligence. Thus it may in proper cases take the place of an action for negligence, or an action for breach of warranty of authority brought by the person named as defendant in the writ. The office should not be able to treat a matter of such importance with such negligence without any redress. When it comes to the practice of democracy, Americans now have few illusions about our own incompetence, division, and negligence. There is no reason to fear a flood of negligence suits against barristers. The whole point of negligence law is to provide society with a vocabulary through which victims can confront their injurers which does not demand proof of criminal conduct. It is an inquiry into matters of fact, just as a civil trial is an inquiry into matters of fact, and then a determination of whether negligence existed, for example. As yet mediation has not proved popular with claims handlers, but it may yet appear in the Government's White Paper on clinical negligence reform. For some reason no one wanted to hire a pilot who had been found guilty of gross negligence and dereliction of duty following the destruction of his ship. The best it seems to me that you can put against Andar is that there was a casual act of negligence on the part of its employee in not inspecting this particular trolley. The trial judge ruled that contributory negligence was not a defence to the claims in negligent misrepresentation and fraud and excluded this evidence. The auditors' failure to attend stocktaking and identify the overstatement of stock is evidence of negligence, writes a litigation support partner at Kingston Smith. Thus the position now acknowledged is that in an appropriate case a claimant in a negligence suit may establish a prima facie case by relying on the fact of the accident. These public law remedies are additional to any private law remedies which would be available to him such as damages for misfeasance in public office, assault or negligence. It was her penury and negligence that let the house deteriorate. Schettino, like Lee, was arrested immediately after the accident for negligence and abandoning the ship. The blast took place due to the police negligence, sources said. The bus fell into the river due to negligence of the driver. We cannot just say it was not negligence without a proper investigation. Show More Sentences It is simply due to the greed of some, and negligence by others. Their negligence and arrogant disregard for facts will put lives at risk. To take a hypothetical case, suppose that, on day one, an unlawful trading activity starts which is not disclosed or prevented as a result of the defendant's negligence. A negligence claim is habitually analysed compartmentally by asking whether there was a duty of care, breach of that duty, and damage caused by the breach of duty. Does it do no more than permit but not require a finding of negligence? The defendant was not liable for the cost of the respray because, having damaged an already damaged car, his negligence was not the cause of the loss. In tort, one is not liable for every injury caused by one's negligence. The owner was held vicariously liable for the negligence of the driver. Yes, Klein was an actual victim of documented abuse, whereas the only crime against Victoria was familial negligence. The relevant function here was to perform those legal obligations which bound the Council to comply with the laws so far as nuisance and potentially negligence were concerned. The deputy director of the Navy Fleet Command's political warfare department said that there were negligence and flaws in evening roll-calls aboard the warship. Yes, some errors are due to negligence by a doctor or a nurse. Death due to negligence occurred in one per cent of this group. In this regard, liability results from negligence and breach of contract. I was open to persuasion that the actual facts before the court did not disclose a case of negligence that had any reasonable prospect of success. The primary focus of those claims is in breach of duty and negligence, but I cannot agree that the defendant had a duty of care towards the claimant. There has been no cross examination of the Claimant with a view to establishing what degree of contributory negligence should be attributed to him. A negligent tortfeasor is not responsible for all the direct consequences of his negligence, but only for such damage as ought reasonably to have been foreseen. Usually, we also declare that human negligence must be the root of the abnormalities. Stone, the relative, and the children's caregiver were sued for negligence and wrongful death. Show More Sentences But the entire burden of my learned friend's song was to the effect that what happened in this case was a more or less clear case of negligence, because of foreseeability. The above argument is not a defence of genuine culpable negligence. In Australia, contributory negligence is available when the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to its own injuries. One example of the gradual change that typifies evolution of the common law is the gradual change in liability for negligence. This was a landmark case in the development of negligence law in Australia. Further establishment of conditions of intention or malice where applicable may apply in cases of gross negligence. Because Palsgraf was hurt by the falling scales, she sued the train company who employed the conductor for negligence. Courts that follow Cardozo's view have greater control in negligence cases. It means something more than pecuniary loss is a necessary element of the plaintiff's case in negligence. A claimant who has suffered only emotional distress and no pecuniary loss would not recover for negligence. The United States generally recognizes four elements to a negligence action, duty, breach, proximate causation and injury. A plaintiff who makes a negligence claim must prove all four elements of negligence in order to win his or her case. Consequently, passengers who are injured aboard ships may bring suit as if they had been injured ashore through the negligence of a third party. Mary Hanche, 22, and her husband Christopher, 26 have been charged with criminal negligence over the incident in Louisiana. It created the modern concept of negligence, by setting out general principles whereby one person would owe a duty of care to another person. Some states, though, still use the contributory negligence doctrine to evaluate negligence in a tort. For instance, Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia continue to use contributory negligence. Contributory negligence in common law jurisdictions is generally a defense to a claim based on negligence, an action in tort. The contributory negligence defense can potentially eliminate the defendant's responsibility to pay damages to an injured plaintiff. In others, the burden of proof is on a plaintiff to disprove his or her own negligence. Show More Sentences The defense is not available if the tortfeasor's conduct amounts to malicious or intentional wrongdoing, rather than to ordinary negligence. In Australia, particularly New South Wales, the award of damages is reduced by the same percentage as the plaintiff's own negligence. Determining the extent of the contributory negligence is subjective and heavily dependent on the evidence available. For instance, the modern UK law of negligence is based on Donoghue v Stevenson, a case originating in Paisley, Scotland. In the United States, the pure contributory negligence only applies in Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Indiana applies pure contributory negligence to medical malpractice cases and tort claims against governmental entities. In England and Wales, it is not possible to defeat a claim under contributory negligence and therefore completely deny the victim compensation. In India compensation in favour of victim gets reduced in proportion with his negligence. Frey eventually faced more than 10 class action lawsuits, including negligence, false advertising, and breach of contract. The court further observed that the parents had been on constructive notice of potential medical negligence. Hamza said that the criminal negligence of the previous rulers with regard to solving the national problems had made the nation a beggar. Thank providence that such negligence of our cannon fodder wouldn't be tolerated so much with today's compensation culture. Police are probing criminal negligence claims after daughter Diane Grimoldby alleged a catalogue of neglect. On 4 September 2014, Judge Barbier ruled in the first phase of the case that BP had committed gross negligence. It occurs where death results from serious negligence, or, in some jurisdictions, serious recklessness. An equivalent in Canada is causing death by criminal negligence under the Criminal Code, punishable by a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Criminal negligence is when the homicide was the result of an act that showed wanton or reckless disregard for the lives of others. There is such thing as advertent negligence in which the harm is foreseen as possible or probable. He was held on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter by recklessness and negligence. The FDIC typically asserts claims for negligence, gross negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. Show More Sentences Their negligence left every home computer owner on this earth in possession of something far worse than a loaded gun. Functional safety is crucial in the aerospace industry, which allows no compromises or negligence. Pit boss Malcolm Fyfield, 58, and its former owners MNS Mining both deny gross negligence manslaughter charges. Absolute negligence and outsight indifference has caused extensive damage to the lake, which is often known as the ecological lungs of Srinagar. The case was decided by a jury which was instructed by Judge Samuel Mandelbaum in accordance with this negligence standard. It often remains unworkable due to negligence of concerned staff of the board but the students have to suffer heavily. Most people fly-tip either out of laziness, negligence or to avoid paying the disposal fee known as landfill tax. Subsequently, he brought an action against his local health authority for negligence. Sully decides to face the truth of what his negligence has sown. The captain of the wrecked boat was accused of criminal negligence. Overall, the wild life of the Persian Gulf is endangered from both global factors, and regional, local negligence. They are not the result of momentary negligence or incompetence. Beckingham, of Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, was cleared of manslaughter by gross criminal negligence but convicted of a health and safety breach. Demetris Doulas was testifying at the trial of six men facing charges of causing death by want of precaution, and homicide by gross negligence. It shows less culpability than intention, but more culpability than criminal negligence. Note that gross criminal negligence represents such a serious failure to foresee that in any other person, it would have been recklessness. Causation in English law concerns the legal tests of remoteness, causation and foreseeability in the tort of negligence. The significant factor was the pilot's negligence at the time, and the pilot's lack of license made no difference there. So the negligence as pleaded and as found by the judge did not relate to the fact that the terminal bonuses were not guaranteed. Although it has been relatively unsuccessful in cases of medical negligence, it does provide a remedy in professional negligence generally. Show More Sentences It was no longer a defence to argue that the negligence had not been gross. An equivalent to causing death by dangerous driving in Canada under the Criminal Code is Causing death by criminal negligence. And people should be prosecuted for their criminal negligence and cover-ups. Take for example a factory which was burnt down by the negligence of a contractor. Cardozo which removed the requirement of privity of contract for duty in negligence actions. Stevenson for damages for breach of contract and instead sued for negligence. In comparative negligence, the victim's damages are reduced according to the degree of fault. Economists have further criticized comparative negligence as not encouraging precaution under the calculus of negligence. If the claimant is involved in wrongdoing at the time the alleged negligence occurred, this may extinguish or reduce the defendant's liability. Circumstances such as those involving professional negligence may involve both torts and contracts. Someone who suffers loss caused by another's negligence may be able to sue for damages to compensate for their harm. A local court has sentenced Corinna Reid, 35, and Robert Cormack, 42, to six months each for causing 16-month-old Aiden Cormack's death through negligence. Involuntary manslaughter arises where the accused did not intend to cause death or serious injury but caused the death of another through recklessness or criminal negligence. A high degree of negligence is required to warrant criminal liability. Being one of the first railways, many lessons had to be learnt from experience, but not many passengers were killed except by their own negligence. Syperda was vicariously liable for the negligence of CRNAs Catsos and Siegel, and that AA was vicariously liable for the negligence of its employees, Drs. Following or disregarding a custom is not determinative of negligence, but instead is an indication of possible best practices or alternatives to a particular action. Liability, at that time, was not dependent upon negligence, but the act. These considerations now were dispositive of' any claims of negligence in the medical decisions concerning the treatment the patient needed and received. Pita, 75, was one of 10 test cases from a group of 1,011 nuclear test veterans who have fought for eight years to bring the MoD to trial for negligence. Show More Sentences The police arrested the minivehicle's driver, Akane Tsuji, a pachinko parlor clerk from Wajima, at the scene on suspicion of negligence resulting in death and injury. Although crimes may be torts, the cause of legal action is not necessarily a crime, as the harm may be due to negligence which does not amount to criminal negligence. The Justice Department contends that BP committed gross negligence and willful misconduct, which BP contests, and is seeking the stiffest penalties possible. The majority determined that the definition of negligence can be divided into four component parts that the plaintiff must prove to establish negligence. The doctor's negligence does result in the mountaineer running a risk which he otherwise would not have done, but this is insufficient to incur liability. In November 2002, officials there concluded that Kugler, but not his coauthors, was guilty of negligence and that the paper didn't meet standards of good scientific practice. Alternatively, the defendant will not be liable if the damage would, or could on the balance of probabilities, have occurred anyway, regardless of his or her negligence. But where did the idea arise that an AI should not only be able to foist off its own sole negligence onto another party's insurance, but it should be entitled to do so? Donoghue was therefore required to claim damages for negligence. The manufacturer was sued in negligence and the court held that manufacturers could owe their ultimate consumers a duty of care in limited circumstances. It is a modification of the doctrine of contributory negligence that disallows any recovery by a plaintiff whose negligence contributed even minimally to causing the damages. When comparative negligence was adopted, three main versions were used. Sweeteners with alitame, cyclamate, and steviol glycosides are not approved as food ingredients in the United States but can be found in countries by sheer negligence. The area of tort law known as negligence involves harm caused by failing to act as a form of carelessness possibly with extenuating circumstances. But negligence and sloth having by degrees introduced a total relaxation of discipline, the soldiers began to think their armor too heavy, as they seldom put it on. Some things must be established by anyone who wants to sue in negligence. It was alleged that in some cases the violations were due to negligence, while in others the violations were knowingly and willfully committed by refinery officials. If there is clear subjective evidence that the accused did not have foresight, but a reasonable person would have, the hybrid test may find criminal negligence. Bryan Griffiths, 55, is charged with the manslaughter by gross negligence of Warwickshire Hunt member Trevor Morse at Long Marston airfield on March 9 last year. Criminally negligent manslaughter is variously referred to as criminally negligent homicide in the United States, and gross negligence manslaughter in England and Wales. Show More Sentences In some jurisdictions, in order to successfully raise an contributory negligence defense, the defendant must prove the negligence of a plaintiff or claimant. Shahbaz alleged the cost of the Nandipur power project had increased from Rs 22 billion to Rs 51 billion due to criminal negligence of the previous government. I deeply regret to say that a lot of innocent people are losing their lives due to the negligence and selfness policies of our democratic government. It's on the gross negligence or criminal negligence theory,'' Cromer said. Examples from Classical Literature However, he determined to wend his way to the inn and reprove him for his negligence. It has been shown above that if a man was a common farrier he could be charged for negligence without an assumpsit. The bailor is not responsible generally for any negligence of the hirer in operating the car. The shipper must be the loser unless he can show that it was caused by the negligence of the carrier. None of art's works, but prodigally strownBy nature, with her negligence divine. In this case the owners of the pig were fined eighteen francs for negligence, because the child was their fosterling. This opposition criticised the government for negligence, extravagance and incompetency. We have practically agreed on that, and that leaves the only defense remaining for the employer, that of contributory negligence. Defendant pleaded that in omitting to sound its hooter the owl was guilty of contributory negligence. I could understand the conductor's position, and beside, in the law, I had been guilty myself of contributory negligence. Neither did she disgust by arrogant negligence, and uncircumspect loquacity. He instantly summoned the servants, and took them to task for their negligence. The charm of that style consists in the negligence with which the paint is applied. They therefore affect a Quakerly plainness, or rather a cynical negligence and impurity, of style. He, therefore, and not the hirer is responsible for the negligence of the chauffeur. In mutual benefit bailments, the bailee is obliged to exercise ordinary care, and is liable for ordinary negligence. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of negligence? Words that rhyme with negligence What is the plural of negligence? What is the adverb for negligence? What is the adjective for negligence? What is the noun for negligence? Translations for negligence Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words negligees negligee neglects neglection neglecting neglectfulness negligences negligent negligently negligibility negligible negligibly 10-letter Words Starting With n ne neg negl negli neglig neglige negligen negligenc