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reasonable person standard  

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  • The reasonable person standard is a test used to define the legal duty to protect one's own interest and that of others. The standard requires one to act with the same degree of care, knowledge, experience, fair-mindedness, and awareness of the law that the community would expect of a hypothetical reasonable person. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Reasonable Person Standard]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-ZVPS24JP-G

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