Note 379 — Chapter XVIII · INTENTION AND NEGLIGENCE.
Reading edition
Clerk and Lindsell, Torts, p. 457, 4th ed.: “Negligence is the omission to take such care as under the circumstances it is the legal duty of a person to take. It is in no sense a positive idea, and has nothing to do with a state of mind.” Cf. Pollock, Torts, pp. 437–439, 8th ed.