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.
Jud is a rural hamlet in LaMoure County, North Dakota, in the United States. The population was 76 at the 2000 census. Jud was founded in 1905 and named for county settler Judson LaMoure. It is located along unpaved 61st Street SE, 9 miles west of State highway 281 and 25 miles south of Interstate 95 in the midst of settled farmland and open plains.