CARE
Watchful attention; custody; diligence; concern; caution; as opposed to NEGLIGENCE or carelessness.
In the law of negligence, the standard of reasonable conduct determines the amount of care to be exercised in a situation. The care taken must be proportional to the apparent risk. As danger increases, commensurate caution must be observed.
Slight care is the care persons of ordinary
prudence generally exercise in regard to their
personal affairs of minimal importance.
Reasonable care, also known as ordinary
care, is the degree of care, diligence, or precau-
tion that may fairly, ordinarily, and properly be
expected or required in consideration of the
nature of the action, the subject matter, and the
surrounding circumstances.
Great care is the degree of care that persons
of ordinary prudence usually exercise with
respect to their personal affairs of great impor-
tance.
Another type of care is that which a fiduciary – a person having a duty, created by his or her undertaking, to act primarily for another’s benefit – exercises in regard to valuable possessions
entrusted to him or her by another.
