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1932

Donoghue v Stevenson

House of Lords

Holds that a manufacturer owes a duty of care to the ultimate consumer of its product, deriving a general 'neighbour principle' that anyone reasonably foreseeable as harmed by carelessness is owed a duty.

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Filed under Tort Law in Law.