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Nuisance per se

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

One which constitutes a nuisance at all times and under ali circumstances, irrespective of locality or surroundings, as, things prejudicial to public morals or dangerous to life or injurious to public rights; distinguished from things declared to be nnisances by statute, and also from things which constitute nuisances only when considered with reference to their particular location or other individual circumstances.

Hundley v. Harrison, 123 Ala. 292, 26 South. 294; Whitmore v. Paper Co., 91 Me. 297, 39 Atl. 1032, 40 L. R. A. 377, 64 Am. St. Rep. 229; Windfall Mfg. Co. v. Patterson, 148 Ind. 414, 47 N. E5. 2, 37 L. R. A. 381, 62 Am. St. Rep. 532.