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Reasonable person
Meaning
Noun
●
In Law & People:
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
figuratively
or
idiomatically
: see
reasonable
, person.
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