Shaping the Law of Weather Control

Man seems always to have assumed that storms, the fall of rain and snow, and other weather changes were subject to some sort of control.'From anthropomorphic myth as an explanation, belief and law turned to witchcraft, 2 but by the eighteenth century, weather phenomena were ascribed to a Providence whose decisions were legally inscrutable.aPrecipitation fell from the riven sky in expression of the "act of God" and human responsibility extended only to reasonable foresight and precaution, unless a contract of insurance was involved.From Lord Mansfield 4 to present-day judges, events of this kind have been held"not of human origin and not controllable by human power."5 Each of these varying conceptions reflected accretions to kmowledge and ' Sterling Fellow,

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