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Pourpresture or purpresture

purpresture [fr. pourpris, Fr., an inclosure], anything done to the nuisance or hurt of the King's demesnes, or the highways, etc.,

Scold

breaks the public peace, increases discord, and becomes a public nuisance to the neighbourhood, 4 Steph. Com. see CASTIGATORY. A person

Animals

any noisy animal which shall be or cause a serious nuisance to residents in the neighbourhood, but no proceeding can be

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Continuing nuisances

Continuing nuisances, may amount to a further tort of nuisance; this is

Barbed-wire

barbed wire adjoining a highway when it thus constitutes a nuisance; but on lands not adjoining a highway a person is

Abatement

freehold out of possession, Co. Litt. 277a. (2) Abatement of Nuisances.-A remedy allowed by law to a person injured by a

per se

illegal per se] see also negligence per se at negligence nuisance per se at nuisance 2 : without proof of special

London

provided), which till 1891 was governed in sanitary matters by Nuisance Removal Acts, Metropolis Management Acts, and other Acts passed either

Misdemeanour

for food, R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11; public nuisances (see NUISANCE); and very many other offences, which are misdemeanours

Pollution

or indirectly) as may, or is likely to, create a nuisance or render such water harmful or injurious to public health

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