Nuisance
idea · 2 works · 8 mentions · 15 anchored passages
nuisance · coming to a nuisance · continuing nuisance · noxious trade · obstruction of highway · public or private nuisance
in the texts
The Law of Torts
The tort of interference with another's use or enjoyment of property.
The jurisdiction existing since Lord Cairns’ Act to award damages in lieu of an injunction does not carry with it a discretion to refuse an injunction in cases, especially of continuing nuisance, where the plaintiff is entitled to that remedy under the settled principles of equity.
The creation of a nuisance to the special prejudice of any person is a tort.
Where several persons are guilty of similar nuisances, every one of them is severally liable to any person thereby harmed, notwithstanding that any such person may suffer harm of the same kind and of equal or greater amount from the other co-existing nuisances.
Law in a Free State
A legal question concerning interference with the use of property listed among the hard cases for individualist theory.
” Questions of libel, of cruelty to animals, of copyright, of adulteration, of the relation of the sexes, of rights over land, of nuisance and many others, are difficult to solve straight off on the principle of equal liberty.