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CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
Example:
in common law any degree of contributory negligence would bar the plaintiff from collecting damages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("contributory negligence" is a kind of...):
carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)