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What is Negligence? and All about Negligence

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Generally, everyone has a duty to act reasonably to avoid injuring others. Where a person acts or fails to act as a reasonable person in the same circumstances, and the act or failure to act results in someone’s foreseeable injury, he has likely been Negligence. California’s Civil Code section 1714 provides that people have a duty to use ordinary care and that everyone is responsible for their willful acts as well as for those injuries which are caused by aRead More …