MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Contributory Negligence, Debt Management Plan, Implied Consent

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Marketing and Consumer Studies
• Course: MCS 3040
• Professor: Joseph Radocchia

Document Summary

Occupier: any person with a legal right to occupy premises or has some degree of control over land or buildings on that land. Occupiers" liability: describes the liability that occupiers have to anyone who enters onto their land or property. Liability was determined by classifying the visitor as a contractual entrant, invitee, licensee, or trespasser. Contractual entrant: any person who has paid (contracted) for the right to enter the premises. Invitee: any person who comes onto the property to provide the occupier with a benefit. Licensee: any person whose presence is not a benefit to the occupier but to which the occupier has no objection. Trespasser: any person who is not invited and whose presence is either unknown to the occupier or is objected to by the occupier. Give rise to liability for negligence as well as under occupiers" liability legislation. Business that fails to take reasonable care to reduce risk will be found liable.