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13-830. Implied warranty to use reasonable skill.

            When a person undertakes to practice a trade or to do a kind of work which requires some learning, special training or experience, [he] [she] is obligated to exercise that degree of skill which a reasonably prudent person skilled in such work would exercise in the circumstances.

 

USE NOTE

            UJI 13-829 and 13-830 are similar in their statement of the standard of performance required by contracts to perform services.  Either or both may be used as appropriate to the evidence and the pleadings.

[Adopted, effective November 1, 1991.]

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