Prior to the Advent of Limiting Liability Statutes, an Ice

question 11

True/False

Prior to the advent of limiting liability statutes, an ice storm occurred in a small town where the Miscadem Motel was located. Heavy ice formed on tree limbs, causing many to break from the weight. One heavily iced branch fell on a hotel window, causing it to break. Shattered glass caused injury to a guest's property inside. True or false: Under common law the hotel would have been liable for the loss.

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Definitions:

Fed

An abbreviation often referring to the Federal Reserve System, which is the central banking system of the United States.

Conditional Response

A learned response that becomes associated with a previously unrelated stimulus as a result of conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response that is at first elicited only by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Rescorla

A psychologist recognized for his work on associative learning and the contingency theory in classical conditioning.