Nuisance

nusance. Annoyance; any thing that annoys, incommodes or offends; any thing that renders life or the ordinary use or occupation of property uncomfortable. The former remedy, to some extent in the United States as in England, was the old Assise of Nuisance; but the modem remedy is an action on the case. v. Common nuisance; Private nuisance.

In old English law

Nuisance, assise of: a judicial writ directed to the sheriff of the county in which 'a nuisance existed, commanding the sheriff to summon an assise, to view the premises, and have them at the next commission of assises, that justice might be done, etc.