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res ipsa loquitur: a standalone construct

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Tort law

the doctrine allowing negligence to be inferred when an accident ordinarily does not happen without negligence and the instrument was in the defendant's control.

In tort law, res ipsa loquitur refers to the doctrine allowing negligence to be inferred when an accident ordinarily does not happen without negligence and the instrument was in the defendant's control. This meaning comes from Prosser (1949) in California Law Review.[1]

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References

Prosser, W. L. (1949). Res Ipsa Loquitur in California. California Law Review, 37(2), 183. https://doi.org/10.2307/3478016

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