COMM 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Product Liability, Pilot Light, Natural Disaster
2 Feb 2017
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You"re responsible for your kid"s acts for the first 18 years. [1460] teachers, daycare workers, bus drivers, babysitters liable for kids. Caregiver to child, caregiver is vicariously liable (but also still [1459] parent) [1461] tutor/curator not at fault for a person under protective supervision. Unless tutor/curator guilty of gross/deliberate fault in exercising custody i. e. simple fault = no liability. [1463] vicarious liability of p for a or eer for eee while on duty. [1464] liability of state for state agent (usually refers to police officers) [1465] autonomous act of the thing = the thing acting on its own. E. g. your car rolls down the hill (no hand break on) you"re liable. E. g your tree falls on another person"s property it"s your tree therefore you"re liable. [1466] if you have an animal, and the animal causes injury, then you are liable even if it"s chained, you have a sign up, etc. [1467] immovable = difficult to move/ attached to ground.
