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Legal Dictionary - Negligence

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Failure to exercise due care. When a person fails to exercise the care that a reasonable, prudent person would exercise under the same circumstances, that person is said to be negligent. See, e.g. Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corp. v. Garris, 532 U.S. 811 (2001).

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