Peril
Imminent peril, or imminent danger, is a noun for the legal concept of unacceptable conditions urgently needing corrective action. The principle allows people to act instinctively, without concern of recrimination. The actions are exempt from ordinary standards of reasonable care when the action meets a sudden and urgent need. For example, a person doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a victim in cardiac arrest needn't fear if in so doing he or she breaks some of the victim's ribs. Because of the doctrine, the person will not be liable for the injuries; as it was done to meet an urgent need. Imminent peril is "certain danger, immediate, and impending; menacingly close at hand, and threatening." In many states, a mere necessity for quick action does not constitute an emergency within the doctrine of imminent peril, where the situation calling for the action is one which should reasonably have been anticipated and which the person whose action is called for should have been prepared to meet; the doctrine of imminent peril does not excuse one who has brought about the peril by her own negligence.
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Famous quotes containing the word peril:
““Because a few complacent years
Have made your peril of your pride,
Think you that you are to go on
Forever pampered and untired?”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“For I’ve been born and I’ve been wed—
All of man’s peril comes of bed.”
—C.H. (Charles Henry)
“He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.”
—Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)