Reasonable-person Definition

noun
Attributive form of reasonable person.
Reasonable-person doctrine.
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(law) 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."

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Used other than as an idiom: see reasonable,‎ person.

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Other Word Forms of Reasonable-person

Noun

Singular:
reasonable-person
Plural:
reasonable persons, reasonable people

Reasonable-person Sentence Examples

  • The licensing authority must form a view as to whether a reasonable person would consider the observations frivolous or vexatious.

  • No reasonable person is objecting to the FBI's right to conduct a wiretap.

  • No reasonable person is objecting to the FBI 's right to conduct a wiretap.

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