Common Nuisance
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Hawkins, In his Pleas of the Crown, defines a common nuisance as an offense against the public, by doing anything injurious to all the King's subjects, or by omitting to do that which the common good requires.
71 111. 194.
One that affects the public at large and is a violation of a public right, either by a direct encroachment upon public property, or by doing some act which tends to the common Injury, or by omitting to do, in the discharge of a legal duty, that which the common good requires.
214 111. 635.
One which affects the public in general, and not merely some particular person.
1 Hawk. P. C. 197.
See "Nuisance." COMMON OPINION IS GOOD AUTHORity In law.
Co. Litt. 186a; 3 Barb. Ch. (N. Y.) 528, 577.