Products liability doctrine holds a manufacturer, or other party involved in selling a product, strictly liable when an article, placed into the market with knowledge that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes a personal injury. Consumers who are injured because of a fault with a product that the consumers had no ability to protect themselves against may recover against the manufacturer under a theory of products liability.
Convent is an unincorporated community in and the parish seat of St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has been the parish seat since 1869. The town took damage during Hurricane Katrina, disrupting parish government activities for several months.