DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Civ. § 5.3
No Duty to Anticipate Negligence
NO DUTY TO ANTICIPATE NEGLIGENCE
Nobody is required to anticipate someone else’s negligence. A [driver / person]
is allowed to assume that another [driver / person] will not act negligently until
[he/she] knows or should know that the other person is acting or is about to act
negligently. Therefore, a [driver / person] is required to act reasonably and
prudently under the circumstances of the particular situation.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- civ-2025-10-22
- Content hash
c1adcbec0e18bf177604959789eb21d04d2c08d010815db3c06100544fc67389
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