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Air. As to the right to the enjoyment of air free and unpolluted, see Gale on Easements, and Goddard on Easements; but the claim to air is usually made good under a claim to light and air. The nature and extent of the right to air (which is not a subject of prescription within the Prescription Act) is discussed by Fry, J., in Hall v. Lichfield Brewery Co., (1880) 49 LJ Ch 655, in which damages were given for the obstruction of air to a slaughter-house; and see Bass v. Gregory, (1890) 25 QBD 481, and Chastey v. Ackland, 1897 AC 155.