A person who acts with common sense and who has the mental capacity of an average, normal, sensible human being; criterion requires that the assumptions and ideas on which a defendant acted must have been reasonable in that the circumstances as they appeared to the defendant would have created the same beliefs in the mind of an ordinary person.

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Urijah Woodward

Social Studies

30 December, 14:55

A person who acts with common sense and who has the mental capacity of an average, normal, sensible human being; criterion requires that the assumptions and ideas on which a defendant acted must have been reasonable in that the circumstances as they appeared to the defendant would have created the same beliefs in the mind of an ordinary person.

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Jakob Hubbard · Answer 1

Answer: Reasonable person

Explanation:

Reasonable Person is a phrase frequently used in tort and Criminal Law to denote a hypothetical person in society who exercises average care, skill, and judgment in conduct and who serves as a comparative standard for determining liability.