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C
Simple Personal Injuries
was more than adequately intentional
Heedlessness or Negligence - what Where an act that proves eventually detrimental
[to a person] was unintentional with respect to the
eventual damage, or any part of it, such act may as to so much of the damage with respect to which it was unintentional it may either have been heedless
or not heedless. It is termed heedless where it appears that
the agent ought to have employ'd such and so much reflection as would have been sufficient to prevent him from producing the damage that
eventually ensued; inasmuch as a person of ordinary prudence
might with an ordinary share of caution, have
foreseen the probability of it's resulting from the act.
Example
Thus if it should appear for example that you had no Thus if the damage consists in the bodily pain
you have occasioned a man by striking him, and it appears that you had no
particular intention of striking him porter the man but yet that he
was close to you insomuch that if you had but looked round
to observe whether any person was in the way you must
have seen him, it will appear that your striking him
was an act of heedlessness. But this will not appear to have
been the case if, at the time of your beginning to move, your
arm, he was out of your reach, and was brought within it
unexpectedly and by accident: for instance by a shove from
another person, or in a street upon his starting aside to avoid being
run over trampled on by a horse. The—
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