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DILIGENCE

Legal Term: DILIGENCE
Definition: contracts. The doing things in proper time. 2. It may be divided into three degrees, namely: ordinary diligence, extraordinary diligence, and slight diligence. It is the reverse of negligence. (q. v.) Under that article is shown what degree of negligence, or want of diligence, will make a party to a contract responsible to the other. Vide Story, Bailm. Index h. t., Ayl. Pand. 113 1 Miles, Rep. 40.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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