Private Nuisance
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Nuisance."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A nuisance wherein the danger is to an individual, as distinguished from the public. See 116 Ala. 310, 67 Am. St. Rep. 119, 37 L. R. A. 497, 22 South. 593. See, also, Nuisance.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Anything done to the hurt and annoyance of the lands, tenements, or hereditaments of another. 3 Bla. Com. 215; Kavanagh v. Barber, 131 N. Y. 211, 30 N. E. 235, 15 L. R. A. 089. “Some unauthorized act which causes injury to property, or interferes with a person’s rights over the property of others, or materially interferes with the ordinary physical enjoyment of property by causing injury to health or sensible personal discomfort.” 3 Steph. Com. 406. See Nuisance.