What is the significants of Rylands -vs- Fletcher in tort Law?
With language usage like that I doubt questioner is in law school. Rylands v. Fletcher (1868)[1] LR 3 HL 330 is a landmark English legal case in which the Court of the Exchequer Chamber first applied the doctrine of strict liability for inherently dangerous activities (on appeal by Rylands, the House of Lords confirmed the previous judgment but restricted the rule to a non-natural user of the land). It established a rule related to, though arguably distinct from, the tort of nuisance, the tort of cattle trespass, and the tort of escape of a domesticated animal which was known in scientia to have an inclination to harm. The so-called Rylands rule has in Australia become absorbed into the ordinary law of negligence with all the requirements of duty of care, tests of reasonableness of care, foreseeability, proximity, and considerations of contributory negligence. The dispute in Rylands concerned escape of water onto neighbouring land. Later cases in which the Rylands test was applied invo
