"Rule in Rylands v Fletcher". This doctrine was further developed by English courts, and made an immediate impact on the law. Prior to Rylands, English...

in cases brought under Rylands v Fletcher and the general tort of nuisance. It was also significant in implying that Rylands was not an independent tort...

Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council [2003] UKHL 61 is an important English tort law case, concerning the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher. Transco...

plaintiff's injuries. The claimant also claimed under the principle in Rylands v Fletcher, that the ball was a dangerous item that had "escaped" from the cricket...

liability. In Fletcher v. Rylands In the Exchequer Chamber, L.R. 1 Ex. 265, 1866, affirmed in the House of Lords on appeal in Rylands v. Fletcher L.R. 3 H...

Authority v General Jones Pty Ltd is a tort law case from the High Court of Australia, which decided it would abolish the rule in Rylands v Fletcher, and the...

activities. Under the precedent established in the English case of Rylands v Fletcher, upon which the Indian doctrine of absolute liability is based, anyone...

act or omission. An early example of strict liability is the rule Rylands v Fletcher, where it was held that "any person who for his own purposes brings...

v Papakura District Council (New Zealand) [2002] UKPC 9 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding liability under tort for negligence under Rylands v Fletcher...

vis-à-vis the tortious principle of strict liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher. In other words, absolute liability is strict liability without any...

existence of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher. Writers such as John Murphy at Lancaster University have popularised the idea that Rylands forms a separate, though...

Kingdom, this area of law is governed by the rule established in Rylands v Fletcher. Factors determining an activity is ultrahazardous: The relative possibility...

2d 533 Gebhart v. D. A. Davidson & Co., 661 P.2d 855 18 Am. Jur.2d Conversion § 2 Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330. Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan...

Ltd v Auckland City Council [2000] NZAR 324 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding the development of nuisance claims under Rylands v Fletcher. As the...

successful were they that, in 1819, Rylands' father merged his retail business with theirs, creating the firm of Rylands & Sons. At its peak, the company...

Beloye (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) List of sinkholes of the United States Rylands v Fletcher "Lake Peigneur TMDLS for dissolved oxygen and nutrients" (PDF) (Report)...

into the Rylands v. Fletcher principle, which was held to no longer be good law in Australia. Both ignis suus and the Rylands and Fletcher rule were...

the Ernst water well. The claim is supported by the rule in Rylands v Fletcher. Ernst v Alberta Energy Regulator CanLII - 2013 ABQB 537 (CanLII) Supreme...

to the family member with legal control over them. For example, in Baker v Bolton (1808) 1 Camp 493, a man was permitted to recover for his loss of consortium...

Dow Jones v Gutnick is Berezovsky v Michaels in England. Australia's first Twitter defamation case to go to trial is believed to be Mickle v Farley. The...

writing. In Read v Lyons (1947), (where a munitions worker was injured in a factory explosion), the court distinguished Rylands v Fletcher (1868) because...

in Athans v. Canadian Adventure Camps (1977) where the Court held that the personality right included both image and name. In Gould Estate v. Stoddart...

wild regardless of its use. The scienter action is referred to in Rylands v. Fletcher in that one who keeps a wild thing "must keep it at his peril" to...

apologised after A-level Law Paper Two contained a 30 mark question on Rylands v Fletcher and Private nuisance, accounting for 30% of the 100 mark paper, which...

Ratcliffe v. Plymouth & Torbay Health Authority, 1998 "6 HKCFAR 207", Sanfield Building Contractors Ltd v. Li Kai Cheong, 2003 "200 CLR 121", Schellenberg v. Tunnel...

awards including: £350,000 in John v MGN [1992]; £200,000 Donovan v The Face Magazine [1993]; and £600,000 Sutcliffe v Private Eye [1989]. And contrasting...

adopted by the Supreme Court in its landmark 1964 ruling in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, in which the Warren Court held that: The constitutional guarantees...

Ryland Fletcher (February 18, 1799 – December 19, 1885) was an American farmer, politician, the 20th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1854 to 1856...

certain strict liability torts, such as liability under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher or cattle trespass. In a number of instances, the exercise of the...

thorough reconsideration of the doctrine in 2016 in Patel v Mirza. In the early case of Holman v Johnson, Lord Mansfield CJ set out the rationale for the...