comparative negligence

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	carelessness, neglect, negligence, nonperformance,
definition	:	failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances (noun.act)

domain category	:	jurisprudence, law,
definition	:	the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group)