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Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instruction 21.02
Negligent Bailment - Negligence Defined
Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care to prevent [damage to] [loss of] the [bailed property].
A person can be negligent by acting or by failing to act. A person is negligent if he or she does something that a reasonably careful owner of the [bailed property] would not do in the same situation, or fails to do something that a reasonably careful owner of the [bailed property] would do in the same situation. The law does not require exceptional caution or skill, only the care that a reasonably careful owner of the [bailed property] would exercise.
You must decide how a reasonably careful owner of the [bailed property] would have acted in [defendant’s] situation.
History
Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions 21.02, dated 2015. Prepared by the Alaska Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee; published by the Alaska Court System. The Alaska Court System states that these instructions "have not been approved or promulgated by any court or the Alaska Bar Association."
Provenance
- Source
- courts.alaska.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-24
- Edition
- 2026-09-24
- Content hash
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