Nuisance

Anything that unlawfully worketh hurt, inconvenience, or damage. 3 Bl. Comm. 216, That class of wrongs that arise from the unreasonable, unwarrantable, or unlawful use by a person of his own property, either real or personal, or from his own improper, indecent, or unlawful personal conduct, working an ubstruction of or injury to the right of another or of the public, and producing such material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort, or hurt that the law will presume a consequent damage, Wood, Nuis. § 1 Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of Jife or property, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or usa, inthe customary manner, of any navigabie lake or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any publie park, square, street, or highway, ia s nuisance. Civil Code Cal. § #479. persons who come within the sphere of its operation, though it may vary in its effects on individuals. A private nuisance is one Limited in its injurious effeefs Lo one or few individuals. Generally, 2 public nuisance gives no right of action to any individual, bunt must be abated by a process instituted in the name of the state. A private nuisance gives a right of action to the person injured.

Code Ga. 1882, § 2997.

A public nuisance is one which affects at the game time an entira community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persous, although the extent of the annoyance or damages inflicted upon individuals may be unequal.

Civil Code Cal, § 3480.

A private nuisance is anything done to the hurt oY annoyances of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments of another, It produces damage to but one or a few persons, and cannot be suid to be publia 8 BL Comm. 216; 80 N. Y. 592. A mixed nuisance is one whieh, while producing Injury to the public at large, does some special damags to some individual or class of individuals.

Wood, Nuis. § 18.