reasonable person

See also: reasonable-person

English

Noun

reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)

(law) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see reasonable,‎ person.

Translations

a fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society

French: personne raisonnable (fr) f
Japanese: 通常人 (tsūjōjin), 一般人 (ippanjin)
Romanian: persoană rezonabilă

Spanish: persona razonable f
Thai: วิญญูชน (th) (win-yuu-chon)

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