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Noxious

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Hurtful; offensive. Within the meaning of a statute prohibiting noxious or offensive trade or manufactures, brickmaking is not included. 32 L. J. M. C. 135; 13 C. B. n. s. 479. A thing is noxious if capable of doing harm. And if noxious as administered, although innoxious If differently administered; 40 L. J. M. C. 44; 5 Q. B. Div. 307; 13 Cox 547; 12 id. 463. NUBILIS (Lat.). In Civil Law. One who is of a proper age to he married. Dig. 32, 51.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. Rex v. White, 1 Burrows, 337. The word "noxious" includes the complex Idea both of Insalubrity and offensiveness. Id.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Hm-tful; offensive to the smell.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Animal; Cruelty, 3; Nuisance. To constitute the offense of administering a " noxious thing," within the meaning of the statute of 24 and 25 Vict. (1861), c. 180, s. 58, the thing must be noxious in itself, not merely so when taken in excess, and although it may have been administered with intent to injure or annoy. ' See Administer, 1.