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The Reasonable Person Standard in Negligence Law

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The reasonable person is a legal fiction—not an actual individual—but an objective, hypothetical composite of the community's judgment of how a prudent person would act. This standard applies even if the defendant personally lacked the capacity to meet it.

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Have you ever been judged by what 'a reasonable person' would do? In law, that judgment is a serious matter—it can decide who pays for an injury.