CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 401
Basic Standard of Care
Negligence is the failure to use reasonable care to prevent harm to
oneself or to others.
A person can be negligent by acting or by failing to act. A person is
negligent if that person does something that a reasonably careful person
would not do in the same situation or fails to do something that a
reasonably careful person would do in the same situation.
Y ou must decide how a reasonably careful person would have acted in
[name of plaintiff/defendant]’s situation.
New September 2003; Revised May 2020
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2022
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