Legal Dictionary
Main Entry:
reasonable personFunction:
noun : a fictional person with an ordinary degree of reason, prudence, care, foresight, or intelligence whose conduct, conclusion, or expectation in relation to a particular circumstance or fact is used as an objective standard by which to measure or determine something (as the existence of negligence)
reasonable person would not believe that he or she has been seized when an officer merely approaches that person in a public place and begins to ask questions —State v. Cripps, 533 North Western Reporter, Second Series 388 (1995)> called also reasonable man
