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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2505
Negligence - Multiple Causes
It is not necessary that [name of defendant]’s negligence be the only cause of [name of
plaintiff]’s damages. Two or more [people/businesses/corporations]’s negligence can combine to
cause [name of plaintiff]’s damages. If [name of defendant 1]’s negligence combines with [name
of defendant 2/name of non-party]’s negligence to both cause [name of plaintiff]’s damages, then
both [name of defendant 1] and [name of defendant 2/name of non-party] can be legally
responsible for [name of plaintiff]’s damages.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 2505 (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
6b87b0fcadd64f245d52747609675449d808deaf43f1ca24118aacfe6b247ade
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