ATTRACTIVE-NUISANCE DOCTRINE

attractive-nuisance doctrine.Torts. The rule that a person who owns property on which there

is  a  dangerous  thing  or  condition  that  will  foreseeably  lure  children  to  trespass  has  a  duty  to

protect those  children  from  the  danger  <  the  attractive-nuisance  doctrine  imposed  a  duty  on  the

school  to  protect  the  children  from  the  shallow,  polluted  pond  on  school  property>.  —  Also

termed     turntable     doctrine;     torpedo     doctrine.     See     ALLUREMENT;     DANGEROUS

INSTRUMENTALITY  .  [Cases:  Negligence    1172–1178.  C.J.S.  Negligence  §§  399,  476–477,

494–526.][Blacks Law 8th]