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ultrahazardous activity
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ultrahazardous activity n. an action or process which is so inherently dangerous that the person or entity conducting the activity is "strictly liable" for any injury caused by the activity. Examples: working with high explosives or conducting a professional auto race on public streets.
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The analogy of environmentally ultrahazardous activities to the laws of armed conflict has other limitations.
Avoid or compensate? Liability for incidental injury to civilians ... by Ronen, Yael / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The objective theory is based on Article 1913, which introduced for the first time to Mexican law in 1932 an additional theory of tort liability based not on fault, but on notions of strict liability--in particular, strict liability for ultrahazardous activities.
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383) 3) Strict Liability: Offsite migration of materials has triggered strict liability for ultrahazardous activities as demonstrated by classic cases such as Yommer v.
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