Every nuisance not included in the definition of the last section is private.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3481
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 44 Cal. App. 4th 1160 - Beck Development Co. v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co. (1996)
Most recently applied in 3 Cal. App. 5th 248 - Mendez v. Rancho Valencia Resort Partners CA4/1 (August 2016)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.