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.
Barnegat is a census-designated place (CDP) within Barnegat Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The population was 1,690 as of the 2000 census. One of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War took place here.