Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Magna negligentia culpa est; magna culpQ dolus est
Great negligence is fault; great fault is fraud.
Negligent
adj. Characterized by a person's failure to exercise the degree of care that someone of ordinary prudence would have exercised in the same circumstance <the negligent driver went through the stop sign> <negligent construction caused the bridge to collapse>. negligently, adv.
Negligentia semper habet infortuniam comitem
Negligence always has misfortune for a companion.
criminally negligent homicide
See negligent homicide under HOMICIDE.
criminally negligent homicide.
See negligent homicide.
lata negligentia
See NEGLIGENTIA.
magna negligentia
See NEGLIGENTIA.
negligent entrustment
The act of leaving a dangerous article (such as a gun or car) with a person who the lender knows, or should know, is likely to use it in an unreasonably risky manner.
negligent escape
A prisoner's departure from legal custody as a result of an officer's negligence. "Escapes are either voluntary, or negligent. Voluntary are such as are by the express consent of the keeper, after which he never can retake his prisoner again, (though the plaintiff may retake him at any time) but the sheriff must answer for the debt. Negligent escapes are where the prisoner escapes without his keeper's knowledge or consent; and then upon fresh pursuit the defendant may be retaken, and the sheriff shall be excused, if he has him again before any action brought against himself for the escape." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 415-16 (1768).
negligent homicide
See HOMICIDE.
negligent infliction of emotional distress.
The tort of causing another severe emotional distress through one's negligent conduct. Most courts will allow a plaintiff to recover damages for emotional distress if the defendant's conduct results in physical contact with the plaintiff, or, when no contact occurs, if the plaintiff is in the zone of danger. See EMOTIONAL DISTRESS; ZONE-OF-DANGER RULE. Cf. INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.
negligent manslaughter
See involuntary manslaughter under MANSLAUGHTER. negligent misrepresentation See MISREPRESENTATION.
negligent misrepresentation
A careless or inadvertent false statement in circumstances where care should have been taken.
negligent offense
A violation of law arising from a defective discharge of duty or from criminal negligence See criminal negligence under NEGLIGENCE.
negligent tort
A tort committed by failure to observe the standard of care required by law under the circumstances. See NEGLIGENCE.
negligentia
n. [Latin] Roman law. Carelessness; inattentive omission. Negligentia can be of varying degrees, which may or may not result in actionable liability. See CULPA. Cf. DILIGENTIA. "In the sources negligentia is tantamount to culpa, and similarly graduated (magna, lata negligentia). Precision in terminology is no more to be found here than in the field of culpa. One text declares ... 'gross negligence (magna negligentia) is culpa, magna culpa is dolus'; another says: 'gross negligence (dissoluta negligentia) is near to dolus (prope dolum).' In the saying'lata culpa is exorbitant (extreme) negligence, i.e., not to understand (intelligere) what all understand' . . . negligentia is identified with ignorance." Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law 593 (1953).