Discussion
The rule of absolute liability was first laid down by :
Answer: C
The key's answer is Justice Blackburn in 1868.
The rule of no-fault liability for the escape of dangerous things was formulated by Blackburn J in Rylands v. Fletcher, in the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and affirmed by the House of Lords in 1868, the date by which the case is usually cited. Older Indian texts call this rule absolute liability; it is now usually called strict liability, because it admits exceptions, and the Supreme Court's stricter rule in M.C. Mehta v. Union of India (1987) is the one now known as absolute liability. Of the options, only the Rylands rule fits.
Lord Atkin is known for the neighbour principle of negligence in Donoghue v. Stevenson (1932). Winfield wrote in the twentieth century, not in 1735, and Chief Justice Holt died in 1710.
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