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(law) behavior by the plaintiff that contributes to the harm resulting from the defendant's negligence
in common law any degree of contributory negligence would bar the plaintiff from collecting damages
How To Use contributory negligence In A Sentence
- Contributory negligence could reduce the monetary quantification of the defendant's liability, but it cannot legally or logically nullify it.
- He was found guilty of contributory negligence .
- Negligence depends on a breach of duty, whereas contributory negligence does not.
- On the question of contributory negligence each party had caused the injury in that, if either had taken proper care, the accident would probably have been avoided. Times, Sunday Times
- A finding of contributory negligence on the other hand has a direct financial effect on the plaintiff.
- You hear judges write that the employee is guilty of contributory negligence.
- CASARES: However, Alex Sanchez, there is something in civil law called contributory negligence. CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2007
- It is usually said that there is no age below which, as a matter of law, a child cannot be guilty of contributory negligence.
- Fining Allwn a paltry £2,000 instead of gaoling him, Judge Bertrand Richards observed: ‘The victim was guilty of a great deal of contributory negligence.’
- The plaintiff was therefore guilty of contributory negligence and could recover nothing.
