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ADEQUATE CARE Definition & Legal Meaning

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Such care as a man of ordinary prudence would himself take uuder similar circumstances to avoid accident; care proportionate to the risk to be incurred. Wallace v. Wilmington & N. R. Co., 8 lloust. (Del.) 529, 18 Atl. 818.

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