Trespassers

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The law should hold landowner’s different standard of care for trespassers, social events, and invites. If you’re a trespasser, and are on someone’s property without their permission and something happens to you. It shouldn’t be the landowner’s liability for a payout for a trespasser. The person that trespasses is negligent for taken it upon himself or herself to put themselves there in the first place without the property owner’s permission. However, if it’s a child that wanders onto someone’s property and goes in the pool and accidently drowns then it’s the homeowner’s responsibility to have put a fence around that pool for the safety of children. Children don’t know better and aren’t of the mental capacity of an adult.

I think that social guests and invitees should fall into the guest having the right to be on the premises due to business or social gatherings and having the owner’s permission being on that property for events such as social gatherings, dinners, etc. if your invited somewhere and something happens to you and the other person knew of certain hidden facts then those people should be held liable.
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There was a trail of coffee throughout the entire store. I went to their nearest red phone to report it because I didn’t see any workers in the area where we were. No one answered my call. When, I finally saw a worker, I told her that there’s a trail of coffee everywhere all the way from that section to the other side of the store and my brother almost slipped. She said that she was going to get someone to clean it up. So, therefore the liability falls on the owner of the store if it’s not taken care of and someone falls and hurts themselves. Goes back to the person that should be liable should be the person that spilled the coffee and didn’t have the decency to report her coffee spill “how

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