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Definition of Common nuisance
1. Noun. A nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public. "A public nuisance offends the public at large"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Nuisance
Literary usage of Common nuisance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"It is not declared that every establishment is to be deemed a common nuisance
because it may have been maintained prior to the passage of the statute as a ..."
2. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1836)
"common nuisance. Difference between a private and public nuisance. ... Rood,
although it conclude to the common nuisance of divers, in- *tead of all, ..."
3. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Charging Offense as a common nuisance.—An indictment for keeping a disorderly
house as a common nuisance must conclude by alleging that the act or acts were ..."
4. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"common nuisance. 1 A COMMON nuisance is an act not warranted by law or an omission
to discharge a legal duty, which act or omission obstructs or causes ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1883)
"75, § 1; 4 Bl . Comm. 166 ; 1 Russ, on Crimes, 5th (Eng.) ed. 418. . Report of
Massachusetts Commissioners on Crim. Law, tit. common nuisance, § 1. s Rex v. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf, Simon Greenleaf Croswell (1892)
"166 ; 1 Russ. on Crimes, 5th (Eng.) ed. 418. * Report of Massachusetts Commissioners
on Crim. Law, tit. common nuisance, § 1. • Rex v. ..."
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