Common use of Damage caused to third parties Clause in Contracts

Damage caused to third parties. 10.4.1 The lessee shall have to pay compensation for any damage caused to third parties by the rented rail tank cars. 10.4.2 The lessee may escape this obligation to provide compensation only by proving that the damage caused to third parties has been due : to a shortcoming in the rail tank cars itself, to an event of force majeur to a fault on the part of the lessor, its agents or its beneficiaries, to the doing of a third party, to an act of war. 10.4.3 The lessee warrants the lessor against any recourse that might be filed against the latter in this connection.