Phrase guide
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noun
Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness; an everyman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: law
Synonyms: man on the Bondi tram, man on the Shau Kei Wan tram, reasonable person
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any ordinary person; everyman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, broadly
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Synonyms: man on the street
Antonyms: none provided
History
First put to legal use in a reported judgement by Sir Richard Henn Collins MR in the English Court of Appeal libel case, McQuire v. Western Morning News (1903), who attributed it to Lord Bowen.
