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OLW 204 Law of Tort-Part I,AGGREY WAKILI

being in 1932, the essential elements of the this Tort developed during the 
formative years of the development of the capitalist mode of production. 
Negligence as a distinct tort is thus a brainchild of capitalist mode of 
production. More specifically, the Industrial Revolution with its machineries 
which maimed and killed more. [HUARAKA, T., page 135] The popular saying 
during those days about advent of trains and railway lines was that "trains killed 
from cows to a Minister of State". 
 
Today, the modern tort of Negligence is traced back to the case of DONOGHUE 
V. STEVENSON [1932] AC 562. Because of its authority and its attractive 
eloquence, the House of Lord's decision in DONOGHUE V. STEVENSON is the 
inspiration for modern Tort of Negligence. Lord Atkin's statement has been 
selected to be a turning point in the birth of the modern Tort of Negligence when 
he stated: 
 
"... In English law there must, and is, some general 
conception of relations giving rise to a duty of care, of 
which the particular cases found in the books are 
instances. The liability for negligence, whether you style it 
such or treat it as in other systems as a species of 'culpa', is 
no doubt based upon a general public sentiment of moral 
wrongdoing for which the offender must pay. But acts or 
omissions which any moral code would censure cannot in a 
practical world be treated so as to give a right to every 


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person injured by them to demand relief. In this way rules of 
law arise which limit the range of complainants and the 
extent of their remedy. The rule that you are to love your 

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