DILIGENCE
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
ther voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering thé church, parsonage houses, and other buildings thereunto be Jonging, to decay. And the remedy for either lies either in the spiritual court, where the canon law prevails, or in the courts of common law. It is also held to be good cause of deprivation if the bishop, parson, or other ecclesiastical person dilapidates buildings or cuts down timber growing on the patrimony of the church, unless for necessary repairs; and that a writ of prohibition will also lie against him in the common-law courts. 3
with a view to the business of life, seem to be all that are really necessary. Common or or dinary diligence is that degree of diligence which men in general exercise in respect to their own concerns; high or great diligence is of course extraordinary diligence, or that which very prudent persons take of their own concerns; and low or slight diligence is that which rsons of less than common prudence, or inyeed of any prudence at all, e of their own cencerns. Ordinary TH aap is the want of ordinary diligence; slig ry, negligence is the want of great diligence; and gross or more than ordinary negligence is the. want of slight diligence. Railroad Co. v.
with a view to the business of life, seem to be all that are really necessary. Common or or dinary diligence is that degree of diligence which men in general exercise in respect to their own concerns; high or great diligence is of course extraordinary diligence, or that which very prudent persons take of their own concerns; and low or slight diligence is that which rsons of less than common prudence, or inyeed of any prudence at all, e of their own cencerns. Ordinary TH aap is the want of ordinary diligence; slig ry, negligence is the want of great diligence; and gross or more than ordinary negligence is the. want of slight diligence. Railroad Co. v.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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