reasonable persons

Noun

reasonable person (plural reasonable persons or reasonable people)

1. A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."

   Synonyms:

   man on the Bondi tram, man on the Clapham omnibus, man on the Shau Kei Wan tram

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reasonable, person.