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Ryland v. Fletcher
British law case
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ruling of strict liability
- In tort: Strict liability statutes
…by the English decision of Ryland v. Fletcher (1868), which held that anyone who in the course of “non-natural” use of his land accumulates thereon for his own purposes anything likely to do mischief if it escapes is answerable for all direct damage thereby caused. The German statutes, however, deserve…
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