LAW 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Product Liability, Pinto Horse, Product Defect
Document Summary
Special relationship between person making statement and recipient of statement. Actual or constructive knowledge on the part of the maker that recipient intended to rely on the accuracy of the statement. Bought something for a friend, friend is not in the contract: how does tort law apply to product liability, negligence, wronging. Manufacturers can reasonably see their product could cause harm to someone who uses it: legal responsibility under torte law, how is contract and tort relevant to business consumer relations. To protect consumer against profit motive of businesses. Information a symmetry marketplace: manufacturers have a duty to warn. Whiteboard: contract law: breach of contract which gives rise to liability. The breaches can be of implied or expressed terms. Sale of goods act) that prohibit contracting out of warranties. Warranty: violation of warranty does not terminate contract, contract still valid: innocent party cant terminate its obligation to perform, negligence law: tort, manufacturers: negligence in production or by its employees.
