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Who said that, "Negligence is the breach of legal duty to take care which results in damage, undesired…

Percy Henry Winfield defined negligence as a tort in these exact words: "Negligence as a tort is the breach of a legal duty to take care which results in damage, undesired…

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Who said that, "Negligence is the breach of legal duty to take care which results in damage, undesired by the defendant to the plaintiff" ?

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Percy Henry Winfield defined negligence as a tort in these exact words: "Negligence as a tort is the breach of a legal duty to take care which results in damage, undesired by the defendant, to the plaintiff." By contrast, Lord Wright in Lochgelly Iron and Coal Co. v. M'Mullan (1934) described negligence in strict analysis as signifying more than heedless or careless conduct and involving the complex concept of duty, breach, and damage suffered by the person to whom the duty was owing.

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