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Negligence vs Remission - What's the difference?

negligence | remission |

As nouns the difference between negligence and remission

is that negligence is negligence; carelessness while remission is remission.

negligence

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being negligent.
  • (legal, singulare tantum) The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
  • (legal, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
  • Usage notes

    * The breach of a duty of care is one element of the tort of negligence, but is also called (term); one must therefore take care to clarify what is meant.

    remission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lessening of amount due, as in either work or money or intensity of a thing.
  • A pardon of a sin; the forgiveness of an offense.
  • (medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease.
  • Her cancer was in remission .
  • (legal) Referral of a case back to a lower (inferior ) court of law.
  • See also

    * (medicine) relapse * reemission

    Anagrams

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