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Winterbottom v Wright

(1842) 10 M & W 109; 152 ER 402

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtCourt of Exchequer

Year1842

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A party to a contract owes no duty in tort to a third party who is not privy to that contract for harm caused by the negligent performance of the contractual obligation (the now-superseded privity-of-contract limitation on negligence liability).

Area of Law

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