| 单词 | duty to mitigate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasduty to mitigate e. transitive. Civil Law. To abate or minimize (loss or damage caused to one by a wrongful act). Also intransitive in duty to mitigate.It is a legal principle that a plaintiff cannot recover damages in respect of loss that he or she could have taken reasonable steps to avoid. ΚΠ 1912 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 689 This first principle is followed by a second, which imposes on a plaintiff the duty of taking all reasonable steps to mitigate the loss consequent on the breach. 1949 Lloyd's Law Rep. 82 459/1 They had to prove:..thirdly, that defendants took reasonable steps to mitigate their damage. 1978 P. S. James & D. J. L. Brown Gen. Princ. Law of Torts (ed. 4) xxxv. 452 Where a plaintiff has been harmed by a tort he is expected to ‘mitigate’ the damage by doing what a reasonable man would do to minimise his loss. 1998 I. Hunter Which? Guide to Employment xi. 197 An employee would not have complied with his or her duty to mitigate the loss if he or she simply took any job available paying any level of salary. < as lemmas |
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