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Principle : A person is liable for all the injurious consequences of is careless act.
Fact: Ram, a snake charmer, was exhibiting his talents to a group of people. One of the snakes escaped and bit a child who had to be hospitalized for two days for treatment.

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Ram is liable to compensate the child's family for his careless act

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Ram is not liable to anything as such things to keep happening

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Ram is not in a position to compensate as he is poor

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None of these.

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The correct option is B Ram is liable to compensate the child's family for his careless act
The snake charmer is liable as because of his carelessness the child was injured. The snake charmer is under a duty to take care of the snakes and see that the snakes do not escape.

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2. A neighbor is anyone whose interests should have been forseeable by a reasonable man while carrying on his activities.
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A cricket match was going on in a closed door stadium. A cricket fan who could not get into the stadium was watching the game by climbing up a nearby tree and sitting there. The cricket ball in the course of the game went out the stadium and hit this person and injured him. He filed a suit against the organizers.
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