VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 29.010
Owner Charged With Knowledge of Propensities of the Breed
The owner of a [breed; class; species] of animal must take notice of the general, natural
inclinations or characteristics of the [breed; class; species] of that animal. The owner must also
take notice of the inclinations or characteristics peculiar to the animal that he knows about or
should have known about. If any of those inclinations or characteristics are of a kind likely to
cause injury, the owner has a duty to use ordinary care to prevent any reasonably foreseeable
injury.
If an owner fails to perform this duty, then he is negligent.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
- Content hash
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