gross carelessness

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• Out of all measure; beyond allowance; flagrant; shameful; as a gross dereliction of duty, a gross injustice, gross carelessness or negligence. Such conduct as is not to be excused. — Out of all measure; beyond allowance; flagrant; shameful; as a gross dereliction of duty, a gross injustice, gross carelessness or negligence. Such conduct as is not to be excused. All the real and personal property owned by a decedent at the… …   Law dictionary

• gross — 1 / grōs/ adj [Middle English, immediately obvious, from Middle French gros thick, coarse, from Latin grossus] 1: flagrant or extreme esp. in badness or offensiveness: of very blameworthy character a gross violation of the rules of ethics a gross …   Law dictionary

• gross — Great; culpable; general; absolute. A thing in gross exists in its own right, and not as an appendage to another thing. Before or without diminution or deduction. Whole; entire; total; as the gross sum, amount, weight opposed to net. State v.… …   Black's law dictionary

• gross — Great; culpable; general; absolute. A thing in gross exists in its own right, and not as an appendage to another thing. Before or without diminution or deduction. Whole; entire; total; as the gross sum, amount, weight opposed to net. State v.… …   Black's law dictionary

• Gross negligence — is a legal concept which means really serious carelessness. Negligence is the opposite of diligence, or being careful. The standard of ordinary negligence is what conduct one expects from the proverbial reasonable man . By analogy, if somebody… …   Wikipedia

• gross negligence — see negligence Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. gross negligence …   Law dictionary

• gross negligence — severe neglect, extreme carelessness …   English contemporary dictionary

• flagrant — flagrant, glaring, gross, rank are comparable as derogatory intensives meaning conspicuously or outstandingly bad or unpleasant. Flagrant usually applies to offenses, transgressions, or errors which are so bad that they cannot escape notice or be …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• flagrant — adjective Etymology: Latin flagrant , flagrans, present participle of flagrare to burn more at black Date: 1513 1. archaic fiery hot ; burning 2. conspicuously offensive < flagrant errors >; especially so obviously inconsistent with what is right …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• USS Lafayette (AP-53) — was the name and hull classification symbol assigned to the French luxury liner SS Normandie following the latter s seizure in New York by the United States after the Fall of France.Intended for conversion into a high speed troopship, Lafayette… …   Wikipedia

• homicide — ho·mi·cide / hä mə ˌsīd, hō / n [Latin homicidium, from homo human being + caedere to cut, kill] 1: a person who kills another 2: the killing of one human being by another compare manslaughter, murder …   Law dictionary