comparative negligence

1. 1.

   (law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff

   Broadernegligence

   law

Questions about comparative negligence

What does comparative negligence mean?

comparative negligence means "(law) negligence allocated between the plaintiff and the defendant with a corresponding reduction in damages paid to the plaintiff".

Is comparative negligence a common word?

comparative negligence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.