foreseeability
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8.2
- noun
- /fɔːrˌsiːəˈbɪlɪti/
- Formal
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previsibilidad
- Once a court determines that a duty to the plaintiff exists, the court then will most likely consider foreseeability.
- the foreseeability of harm
- foreseeability and duty
Examples
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Essentially, a court will measure the foreseeability of the possibility of damaging the resource and evaluate the injury that would result.
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In legal cases, the foreseeability of consequences is crucial for determining liability.
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Some states use a foreseeability standard.
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Further, developers benefit from the foreseeability and reduced cost such a system provides.
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The court noted that general or simple foreseeability of some harm from the defendant's act would be insufficient to create liability.
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The shared use also increases the foreseeability of the potential harms and accurately defines the group of particularly foreseeable plaintiffs.
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Many unsafe practices can be avoided with careful planning that allows for the foreseeability of accidents (Gray, 1995; Grosse, 1990).
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The court based its holding on the requirement of foreseeability. The court reasoned that if the landlord was not aware of the existence of lead in the paint, then the landlord cannot be expected to reasonably foresee the lead poisoning of a child living on those premises.
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53 The court held that, although the losses and delays from the spill were foreseeable, the pure economic losses should be barred by application of the physical injury rule because foreseeability alone was insufficient to limit a defendant's liability fairly.
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"I think they've got an uphill battle on the basis of foreseeability," says Stanley Chesley, a well-known class action lawyer at Waite Schneider Bayless & Chesley in Cincinnati.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
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3.3
How much you can know about what will happen next
Antonyms
How Predictable
Surface Forms
Morphology
foreseeability = foreseeable (transparent) = fore + see + able + ity
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to 'foreseeable'; meaning clearly denotes the quality of being foreseeable.
Etymology
Foreseeability comes from fore- meaning 'before' and see meaning 'to see', as in foresee and forecast. It describes how much an event can be predicted ahead of time, and in law it helps decide whether an outcome could have been expected.