1. Peril; exposure to harm, loss, pain, or other negative result.
2. A cause of peril; a menace.
apparent danger.
1. Obvious danger; real danger.
— Also termed patent danger.
2. Criminal law. The perceived danger in one person’s actions toward another, as a result of which it seems necessary for the threatened person to use force in self-defense. See SELF-DEFENSE. [Cases: Homicide 787.]
deterrent danger. An obvious danger that an occupier of land creates to discourage trespassers, such as a barbed-wire fence or spikes on the top of a wall.
extraordinary danger. See extraordinary hazard under HAZARD.
imminent danger.
1. An immediate, real threat to one’s safety that justifies the use of force in self-defense.
2. Criminal law. The danger resulting from an immediate threatened injury sufficient to cause a reasonable and prudent person to defend himself or herself. [Cases: Homicide 789.]
patent danger. See apparent danger (1).
retributive danger. A concealed danger that an occupier of land creates to injure trespassers. • A retributive danger is lawful only to the extent that it could be justified if the occupier had inflicted the injury personally or directly to the trespasser. Thus, a spring gun or a land mine is an unlawful means of defending land against a trespasser.
seeming danger. Danger that a reasonable person would perceive to be real, even if it is not.
unavoidable danger.
1. Inescapable danger.
2. A danger that is unpreventable, esp. by a person operating a vessel.
