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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Liability under Rylands v. Fletcher is excluded, if the escape was due to the deliberate act of a stranger which could not reasonably have been anticipated.... To be a defence, the stranger's interference must have been "a conscious act of volition", deliberate or intentional, and not merely negligent, because it appears that the owner of a dangerous thing is bound to guard others against the negligence of third parties(Fleming, The Law of Torts, 5e éd., p. 331)  2, record 1, English, - stranger

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

étranger, étrangère : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 1, French, - %C3%A9tranger

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... Rylands v. Fletcher is but a branch of the wider principle of nuisance, which regulates the mutual duties of neighbouring occupiers and leaves to the law of negligence the responsibilities of an occupier to persons who suffer injury on his premises.  1, record 2, English, - neighbouring%20occupiers

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

term rarely used in the singular  2, record 2, English, - neighbouring%20occupiers

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

terme rarement utilisé au singulier  2, record 2, French, - occupants%20voisins

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The modern doctrine of strict liability for the escape of dangerous substances had its genesis in 1866, in the leading case of Rylands v. Fletcher. The defendant millowners decided to construct a water reservoir on their land for the purpose of supplying water to their factory. On the chosen site there was a disused shaft of an abandoned mine, but owing to the negligence of the engineers, a firm of independent contractors who had been entrusted with the work, this fact was not discovered until the water broke into the staft and flooded the plaintiff's adjoining mine through communicating passages.  1, record 3, English, - escape%20of%20dangerous%20substances

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish