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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3801
Rules of the Road - Driver’s Duty to Drive Reasonably - Affirmative Defense
A person driving a motor vehicle has a duty to drive reasonably under the circumstances
to avoid injury to a person or property. A driver of a motor vehicle is not legally responsible for
damages unless the driver failed to drive reasonably under the circumstances.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 3801 (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
b574dc64e2e190b490727469d8bbebe9c5c3179de00d29acf70b046cb5e130bd
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