Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

diligentia quam suis rebus

n. [Latin] The care that an ordinary person exercises in managing his or her affairs. See ordinary diligence under DILIGENCE."The texts distinguish two standards of diligence, a higher and a lower. The higher is the diligence which the good father of a family habitually exhibits in his own affairs (diligentia exacta or exactissima - diligentia boni patrishamilias). The lower is