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West Virginia Law Review

1965

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Product Liability And Disclaimers In West Virginia: Reflections On Payne And Williams, Willard D. Lorensen Jun 1965

Product Liability And Disclaimers In West Virginia: Reflections On Payne And Williams, Willard D. Lorensen

West Virginia Law Review

Two recent decisions by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals have given unusual vitality to the contractual disclaimer of product liability. To some degree these decisions are now obsolete. To some degree they are not. The aim of this paper is to consider these rulings and reflect upon some of the many problems raised by them and the adoption of the Uniform Commercial Code.