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https://www.lawdepot.com/?pid=pg-BFYMIBUINL-generaltextlink "Reasonable person" is a legal expression used in both criminal and tort law. It refers to a theoretical person in the society who shows average judgment, skill or care in his or her conduct. Civil or criminal cases involving negligence use the reasonable person standard as the basis for comparison when deciding issues of liability. In the court system, the reasonable person theory is applied to the following question: In the same circumstances, how would an average person have behaved?