MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Prima Facie, Product Liability, Reasonable Person

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

Reasonable care: the care of a reasonable person would exhibit in a similar situation. Duty of care: the responsibility owned to avoid carelessness that causes harm to others. Neighbour: anyone who might be reasonably affected by the defendant"s conduct. Prima facie: at first sight or on first appearance. Reasonable person: the standard used to judge whether a person"s conduct in a particular situation is negligent. Causation: the relationship that exists between the defendant"s conduct and the plaintiff"s loss or injury. Remoteness of damage: the absence of a sufficiently close relationship between the defendant"s action and the plaintiff"s injury. Thin skull rule: the principle that a defendant is liable for the full extent of a plaintiff"s injury even when where a prior vulnerability makes the harm more serious than it otherwise might be. Pure economic loss: financial loss that results from a negligent act where there has been no accompanying property or personal injury damage to the person claiming the loss.