dangerous things or occupied a status which demanded professional skill, as in PUBLIC CALLINGS. Remember that Law was originally called upon to deal with a simple and small Economy. Simple Forms of Action in the nature of ACTION ON CASE were sufficient then. [III] In the first quarter of the 19th Century, these hitherto disconnected threads of embryonic liability for negligence began to combine into a discernible principle of wider application, from which gradually emerged the modern concept of negligence as a separate basis of tortious liability. Read: Winfield, History of Negligence 42 Law Quarterly Review 184 (1926). In the 19th Century, the development of the conception of negligence as an independent tort was considerably rapid. Winfield selects 1825 onwards as a turning point and he identifies that: (a) One of the Chief agencies on the growth of Negligence is industrial machinery. Early railway trains, in particular, were notable neither for their speed nor for safety. Trains killed any object from a Minister of State to a wandering cow - these changes naturally reacted on the law - he gives evidence
108 of law's acknowledgment of Negligence: (i) Negligence is reflected in Petersdorff's Abridgment . [wrote these law Volumes between 1825 - 1844]. (ii) Vol. XII of a 1829 publication: "The Negligence" appears - but it contains nothing except bare references to other headings, most of which abridge cases relating to the liability of those who profess common callings.
