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n. (context legal English) negligence evince a total or near total disregard for the rights and welfare of others and for the consequences of an act.
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"Gross negligence" is the "lack of slight diligence or care" or "a conscious, voluntary act or omission in reckless disregard of a legal duty and of the consequences to another party, who may typically recover exemplary damages." Negligence is the opposite of diligence, or being careful. The standard of ordinary negligence is what conduct deviates from the proverbial " reasonable person." By analogy, if somebody has been grossly negligent, that means they have fallen so far below the ordinary standard of care that one can expect, to warrant the label of being "gross." Prosser and Keeton describe gross negligence as being "the want of even slight or scant care", and note it as having been described as a lack of care that even a careless person would use. They further note that while some jurisdictions equate the culpability of gross negligence with that of recklessness, most simply differentiate it from simple negligence in its degree.
Usage examples of "gross negligence".
Either through intentional acts or gross negligence, the eviction was carried out.
Either through intentional acts or gross negligence, the evictionwas carried out.
But what I meant is that I would not dismiss your employees without gross negligence on their part.
Although the claims seem cut and dried on the surface, no one could prove that the cigarette companies had genuinely acted with gross negligence or malicious intent.
Allies or not, if one of their subs happens to go down somewhere else for a reason they'd rather not discussand there are a lot of such reasons these days, including mutiny, gross negligence, forgetting to close a hatch, whateverit could be very convenient to blame its loss on their friends in Washington and ask for compensation.
We are at a complete loss as to identities, since gross negligence—.
But technically they had a right to fire him with seven reps, blacklist him, fine him, and press charges for gross negligence.
Sostenuto had never missed a performance in his life - he resides on East Sixty-second Street during the season - still it was gross negligence of the director.