great care

great care
Extraordinary diligence; that degree of care or diligence which a very prudent person takes of his own concerns, or which a person of ordinary prudence usually exercises about his own affairs of great importance. 8 Am J2d Bailm § 206.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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