Legal liability, based on negligence, which is established in a lawsuit by showing that a law (statute) was violated. Violation of a law, by itself, does not prove negligence. For example, driving without the current automobile registration required by state law will not make a driver liable for hitting a pedestrian, in the absence of any carelessness or fault of the driver. To establish negligence per se, a plaintiff must prove that: (1) the law was violated by the defendant; (2) the plaintiff was injured as a result of the violation; (3) the plaintiff was a person whom the law was intended to protect; and (4) the harm which resulted was the type of harm to be avoided by the law.