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.
Liberty is a city in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,009 at the 2000 census, at which time it was a town; the change to a city was made on January 1, 2001. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community, originally called "Salubrity Springs," was chartered in 1876.