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Ordinary Care

Ordinary or reasonable care is what is expected of most people in most circumstances.  The failure to exercise ordinary or reasonable care may constitute negligence.  More precisely the failure to exercise ordinary care generally arises in the context of there being some duty owed, a breach of that duty and some resulting damage.  It is the failure to exercise ordinary or reasonable care that constitutes negligence.