信しん頼らいの原げん則そく

expression, noun

principle of reliance; rule of reliance on reasonable conduct

A legal doctrine in Japanese law, especially in criminal law, that one is not responsible for failing to anticipate another party's unlawful behavior when one's own conduct is reasonable. Used in technical legal contexts.

• 信しん頼らいの原げん則そくは、交こう通つう事じ件けんの過か失しつ認にん定ていでよく議ぎ論ろんされる。

  The principle of reliance is often discussed in negligence determinations for traffic incidents.

• この判はん例れいでは、信しん頼らいの原げん則そくが適てき用ようされ、被ひ告こく人にんの過か失しつは否ひ定ていされた。

  In this precedent, the principle of reliance was applied and the defendant's negligence was denied.