COMPARATIVE NEGLIGENCE

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Meaning:

(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("comparative negligence" is a kind of...):

carelessness; neglect; negligence; nonperformance (failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)