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The Restatements of the Law is one of the most respected and well-used sources of secondary authority, covering nearly every area of common law. While considered secondary authority (compare to primary authority), the authoritativeness of the Restatements of the Law is evidenced by their acceptance by courts throughout the United States.
The volumes covering torts are part of the second Restatements of the Law series. It includes four volumes, with the first two published in 1965, the third in 1977 and the last in 1979. Section 402A of this Restatement, discussing strict liability for defective products, is by far the most widely cited section of any Restatement. [2]
As Reporter for the Second Restatement of Torts, he helped codify strict products liability in the Restatement's Section 402A. In the early 1940s, Prosser prepared the Comments and Notes to the predecessor of the Uniform Commercial Code: Commercial Code, Tentative Draft No. 1 – Article III. His work was limited to sections 1–51 of Article ...
Restatement of Policy on Germany, a famous speech by James F. Byrnes, then United States Secretary of State, held in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946; Restatement (finance), the amendment and republication of a company's financial statement to correct an error, or change in accounting standard; Repetition (music)
Res ipsa loquitur (Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in common law and Roman-Dutch law jurisdictions under which a court can infer negligence from the very nature of an accident or injury in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved in the context of tort litigation.
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American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 652D; Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corp. Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn, 420 U.S. 469 (U.S. 1975) Haynes v. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. False Light. American Law Institute, Restatement (Second) of Torts § 652E; Time, Inc. v. Hill; Commercial Appropriation of Plaintiff's Name or Likeness, or the ...
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