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contributory negligence
(redirected from Contributorily negligent)

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contributory negligence
n
(Law) Law failure by an injured person to have taken proper precautions to prevent an accident
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Noun1.contributory negligence - (law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence; "in common law any degree of contributory negligence would bar the plaintiff from collecting damages"
negligence, nonperformance, carelessness, neglect - failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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contributory negligence
n (Jur) → Mitverschulden nt
contributory negligence n (Law) → concorso di colpa
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As a result -- and conceivably without any real fault on the plaintiff -- the insurance company may claim the plaintiff is contributorily negligent and thus barred from making any recovery, and refuse to pay voluntarily.
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The court found that in this case, the defendants' claim that the evidence regarding the patient's methamphetamine use should have been admitted to establish that he was contributorily negligent in causing his heart attack.
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