VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 6.010
Duty to Children Under Fourteen Years of Age
If you believe by the greater weight of the evidence that the defendant saw, or in the exercise
of ordinary care, should have seen the plaintiff near the scene of [accident; incident], then the
defendant had a duty to consider that the child might, upon childish impulse and heedless of
danger, put himself in a position of peril. It then became the duty of the defendant to use the
degree of care a reasonable person would use under the circumstances of this case.
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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