easy · LSAT Reading Comprehension
The nineteenth-century legal system was slow to adapt to industrial changes. In particular, the concept of 'negligence' had to be redefined to account for railway accidents. Although some judges resisted this shift, it eventually became inevitable as society demanded greater corporate accountability.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the primary purpose of the passage?
- To trace how a particular legal doctrine was reshaped under pressure from a transforming society.
- To contrast the way 'negligence' was understood in the nineteenth century with its meaning in the twentieth.
- To establish that corporate accountability ought to be the central organizing aim of any legal system.
- To assign the judges of the period chief blame for the railway accidents that occurred.
- To document the technological innovations of the industrial era that made railways possible.
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