reasonable person
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreasonableandperson
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reasonable
adjective
uk/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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person
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɜː.sən/us/ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
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(Definition ofreasonableandpersonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But to assert that there is always a reasonable alternative that anyreasonablepersonwould recognize is to blink reality.
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Thereasonablepersonstandard enjoys a certain sort of objectivity, insofar as it protects people from each other.
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This "best interests" standard is also known as the "reasonableperson" standard-what areasonableperson would most likely want in the same circumstances.
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If in her mind she was not consenting, then she was not consenting, regardless of how thereasonablepersonwould interpret her behavior.
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Still, the point of thereasonablepersonstandard is to balance such interests in a way that is fair to all concerned.
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The professional andreasonablepersonstandards are viewed as objective since they depend on customary practice or rationality.
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What counts as an excuse, for example, will be the presence of conditions where areasonablepersonwould have acted as the defendant did.
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Thereasonablepersonis the one with defensible social values.
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This would be based on the perspective of the hypotheticalreasonableperson.
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This reflects a deeper point, implicit in the earlier discussion of thereasonablepersonstandard.
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Should the agent be held to a 'reasonableperson' standard, or an 'ideal person' standard, or some still more objective standard?
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Thereasonablepersonstandard thus provides a standard of conduct that sets limits on how people should behave toward each other.
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The jury is instructed on thereasonablepersonstandard.
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Most important on the substantive side, juror norms give content to the "reasonablepersonstandard".
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Resolution cannot, then, be found by appealing to thereasonableperson.
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But we may not want to revert to using areasonablepersonstandard because doing so eliminates the individual.
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It may ignore questions from patients or clients that fall outside the boundaries of what areasonablepersonwould want to know.
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Legal opinion established three standards of informed consent: the professional practice standard, thereasonablepersonstandard, and the subjective standard.
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The judge's directed verdict says that areasonablepersoncould not believe that the evidence proved the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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