CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 1005
Business Proprietor’s or Property Owner’s Liability for the
Criminal Conduct of Others
[An owner of a business that is open to the public/A landlord] must use
reasonable care to protect [patrons/guests/tenants] from another person’s
criminal conduct on [his/her/ nonbinary pronoun/its] property if the
[owner/landlord] can reasonably anticipate that conduct.
Y ou must decide whether the steps taken by [name of defendant] to
protect persons such as [name of plaintiff] were adequate and reasonable
under the circumstances.
New September 2003; Revised May 2018
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
1dd6b3d16369809e197b836c45c3c688932fbbd8776bdfeb2c4577674c1bca02
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