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.
Lonsdale is a city in Rice County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,491 at the 2000 census. After a decade long building boom, the population of Lonsdale is nearly 3,000 strong.