attractive nuisance doctrine

attractive-nuisance doctrine. Torts. The rule that a person who owns property on which there is a dangerous thing or condition that will foreseeably lure children to trespass has a duty to protect those children from the danger ( the attractive-nuisance doctrine imposed a duty on the school to protect the children from the shallow, polluted pond on school property). — Also termed turntable doctrine; torpedo doctrine. See ALLUREMENT; DANGEROUS INSTRUMENTALITY . [Cases: Negligence 1172–1178. C.J.S. Negligence §§ 399, 476–477, 494–526.]

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译者Vicky，毕业于世界顶级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与债权人权利及破产诉讼相关的法律文件。