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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2500
Negligence - Definition
[Name of plaintiff] claims that [name of defendant] was negligent. Negligence is doing
something that a reasonably careful [person/business/corporation] would not do under similar
circumstances or failing to do something that a reasonably careful [person/business/corporation]
would do under similar circumstances.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2500 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
- Content hash
82fb497b18e81dd29e61d8b4055f522143f40bc584bfd8abc398d1c6f8e1306f
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