Obstruction
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
‘This is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one’s incorporeal hereditament, e. g., his right to an easement, or profit a prendres an alternative word being “disturbance.” On the Other hand, “infringement.” is the word properly descriptive of an injury to any one’s patent-rights or to his copyright. But “obstruction” is also a very genera] word in law, being applicable to every hindrance of a man in the discharge of his duty, (whether official, public, or private.) Brown. Obtemperandum est consuetudini rationabili tanquam legi.
4 Coke, 38.
A Teasonable custom is to be obeyed as a law.