Practice question
Picart’s reasonable-person inquiry principally asks about prudent conduct from which perspective?
- The circumstances confronting the actor at the time
- Only perfect knowledge acquired years later
- Only the actor’s private declaration after suit
- Only the victim’s eventual treatment bill
- Only the defendant’s social popularity
Legal references
- Civil Code RA386: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html Articles1173,2178,2185.
- Picart v Smith GRL12219 March15,1918 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1918/mar1918/gr_l-12219_1918.html Reasonable-person foreseeability test.
- McKee v IAC GR68102/68103 July16,1992 MAIN: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1992/jul1992/gr_68102_1992.html Emergency rule and own-negligence qualification.
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