“ipsa”

The following 2 entries include the term ipsa.

res ipsa

noun

res ipsa loquitur

noun

: a doctrine or rule of evidence in tort law that permits an inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence


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