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Originally posted by Jim Porter
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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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I used to know the legal term, but it's something like an "attractive danger."
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Papa C.,
The legal term you're looking for is attractive nuisance. This could also include ladders left up, old refrigerators with their doors still intact, unsecured trunks of junk cars, etc.
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Jim:
Thanks. As a matter of fact, I first typed "attractive nuisance," and then I thought (sometimes a dangerous event in the elderly): How the hell can a swimming pool be a nuisance? So....
I should have written: The term is "attractive nuisance," but I don't have the foggiest notion of why.