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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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Examples
The respondent owed the appellant only the ordinary general duty of care owed by an occupier to a lawful entrant.
The Supreme Court found that there was a duty of care owed by all but one of the particular defendants.
The regulations, he said, would place a duty of care on organisers of funfairs and owners of fairground equipment.
He says there is a difficult and intricate question about whether there was a duty of care in law.
The duty of care owed by correctional officers to take steps to protect the inmates is a reasonable one.
Lorimer believes the players' clubs have a duty of care to their young charges.

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