enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of tort cases - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tort_cases

    POKURA V. WABASH RY. CO., 292 U.S. 98 (1934) ([plaintiffs' negligence is determined by the facts and a reasonable person standard) Fletcher v. Rylands: Early leading case on strict liability doctrine. (Exchequer Chamber, 1866) L.R. 1. Ex. 265. Tarasoff v.

  3. Duty of care - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_of_care

    Usually city government has a duty of care to repair and maintain the sidewalk. In tort law, a duty of care is a legal obligation that is imposed on an individual, requiring adherence to a standard of reasonable care to avoid careless acts that could foreseeably harm others, and lead to claim in negligence.

  4. Lists of disasters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_disasters

    These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action or public endangerment or culpable negligence.. List of amusement park accidents; List of economic crises; List of environmental disasters

  5. Gross negligence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_negligence

    Gross negligence may thus be described as reflecting "the want of even slight or scant care", falling below the level of care that even a careless person would be expected to follow. [3] While some jurisdictions equate the culpability of gross negligence with that of recklessness, most differentiate it from simple negligence in its degree. [3]

  6. Criminal negligence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence

    In criminal law, criminal negligence is an offence that involves a breach of an objective standard of behaviour expected of a defendant. It may be contrasted with strictly liable offences, which do not consider states of mind in determining criminal liability, or offenses that requires mens rea , a mental state of guilt.

  7. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_abbreviations

    Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.

  8. Negligence in employment - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligence_in_employment

    Four basic causes of action may arise from such a scenario: negligent hiring, negligent retention, negligent supervision and negligent training. [1] While negligence in employment may overlap with negligent entrustment and vicarious liability , the concepts are distinct grounds of liability.

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword

    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...