Contributory Negligence

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1. Under Article 2179, what follows when the plaintiff’s negligence is only contributory and the defendant’s lack of care …
2. What is the Article 2179 consequence when the plaintiff’s own negligence is the immediate and proximate cause of the in…
3. Does Article 2179 prescribe a universal mathematical reduction whenever contributory negligence is found?
4. A shop negligently leaves a dangerous opening. A customer’s established carelessness contributes to the fall, but the c…
5. A pedestrian wears a bright shirt instead of a preferred uniform. The court finds that choice wholly unrelated to the c…
6. A defendant proves a minor plaintiff lapse but the factfinder determines that it did not contribute to the occurrence o…
7. A road user’s negligent maneuver and a driver’s negligent operation both figure in an accident. One party asks the cour…
8. Distinguish Article 2179’s complete-bar rule from its contributory-negligence mitigation rule.
9. A defendant demands an automatic fifty-percent reduction merely because the plaintiff was contributorily negligent. Exp…
10. The plaintiff was careless about an unrelated matter, but the court finds that carelessness contributed neither to the …
11. In Philippine Bank of Commerce v. Court of Appeals, what customer omission was treated as contributory negligence?
12. What share of the actual damages did the bank defendants bear under the particular allocation in Philippine Bank of Com…