reasonable person

See also: reasonable-person

English

Noun

reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)

1. (law) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reasonable,‎ person.

Translations

a fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 理性自然人 (lǐxìng zìránrén)

• Finnish: järkevä henkilö
• French: personne raisonnable (fr) f
• Japanese: 通常人 (tsūjōjin), 一般人 (ja) (ippanjin)
• Romanian: persoană rezonabilă f
• Spanish: persona razonable f
• Thai: วิญญูชน (th) (win-yuu-chon)