DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Civ. § 5.1
Negligence Defined
NEGLIGENCE DEFINED
This case involves claims of negligence. Negligence is the lack of ordinary
care; that is, the absence of the kind of care a reasonably prudent and careful person
would exercise in similar circumstances. That standard is your guide. If a person’s
conduct in a given circumstance does not measure up to the conduct of an ordinarily
prudent and careful person, then that person was negligent. On the other hand, if the
person’s conduct does measure up to the conduct of a reasonably prudent and careful
person, the person was not negligent.
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The mere fact that an accident occurred is not enough to establish negligence.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- civ-2025-10-22
- Content hash
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