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Record W2266511822

General Motors V. Kravitz - Implications for the Common Law

2008· article· en· W2266511822 on OpenAlexaffabout
Stephen Waddams

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEuropean and International Contract Law
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDamagesLawAppealSupreme courtDelictCommon lawExclusion clauseBusinessBreach of contractGeneral motorsContract managementLaw and economicsPolitical scienceEconomicsPrivate lawComparative lawBlack letter law
DOInot available

Abstract

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It was held in Gougeon v. Peugeot Canada Ltee that the purchaser of a defective automobile could sue the manufacturer for damages, even though it appeared that there was no contract between the manufacturer and the ultimate purchaser. It is easy to see social reasons for supporting this result, but the legal basis of the judgments seemed rather inscrutable to most common law readers. It seemed unclear whether the result was based on contract or on delict, and, if based on contract, whether on the contract between the manufacturer and the dealer, or on the contract between the dealer and the purchaser, or on a contract between the manufacturer and the purchaser. The Gougeon case was approved and followed without discussion by the Quebec Court of Appeal in Kravitz v. General Motors Products of Canada Limited, but in the Supreme Court of Canada there was a careful examination and explanation of the theoretical basis for the result.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.658
Threshold uncertainty score0.687

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0150.025
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0030.003
Research integrity0.0150.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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