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  • 1reasonable person — n: a fictional person with an ordinary degree of reason, prudence, care, foresight, or intelligence whose conduct, conclusion, or expectation in relation to a particular circumstance or fact is used as an objective standard by which to measure or …

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  • 2Imputation (law) — The principle of imputation or attribution reflects the general public policy underpinning the operation of the law which is that ignorantia juris non excusat , the Latin for ignorance of the law is no excuse . All laws are published and… …

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  • 3Piercing the corporate veil — or lifting the corporate veil is a legal decision to treat the rights or duties of a corporation as the rights or liabilities of its shareholders or directors. Usually a corporation is treated as a separate legal person, which is solely… …

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  • 4Vicarious liability (criminal) — The legal principle of vicarious liability applies to hold one person liable for the actions of another when engaged in some form of joint or collective activity. For the civil law system, see vicarious liability. For liability attributed to a… …

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  • 5vicarious liability — see liability 2b Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. vicarious liability …

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  • 6Necessity (tort) — Tort law Part of the …

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  • 7care — n 1: watchful or protective attention, caution, concern, prudence, or regard usu. towards an action or situation; esp: due care a person has a duty to use care in dealing with others, and failure to do so is negligence R. I. Mehr see also due… …

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  • 8capacity — ca·pac·i·ty n pl ties 1: a qualification, power, or ability (as to give consent or make a testament) created by operation of law 2: an individual s ability or aptitude; esp: mental ability as it relates to responsibility for the commission of a… …

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  • 9We the People Foundation — for Constitutional Education, Inc. also known as We the People Foundation is a non profit education and research organization in Queensbury, New York with the declared mission to protect and defend individual Rights as guaranteed by the… …

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  • 10general survival acts — Numerous statutes in the various states providing for survivorship of many causes of action that did not survive at common law, some of them providing in sweeping terms that all causes of action survive the death of either the person in whom the… …

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