reasonable person
Noun
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Noun
reasonable person (plural reasonable persons)
- (legal) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see reasonable, person
- French: personne raisonnable
- Spanish: persona razonable
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