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What is a duty of care?

What is a duty of care? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could foreseeably harm others.
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The family has now decided to end its 130-year link with the house, and a duty of care will pass to the next purchasers.
He says there is a difficult and intricate question about whether there was a duty of care in law.
Critics say a common theme has been the failure to exercise a duty of care for its young charges and a failure to crack down on bullying.
Lorimer believes the players' clubs have a duty of care to their young charges.
If you breach that duty of care, it is reasonably foreseeable that you're going to injure somebody.
On inspection they were found to be in poor condition and needed to be coppiced under the council's duty of care.

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