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Common nuisance   /kˈɑmən nˈusəns/   Listen
Common nuisance

noun
1.
A nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public.  Synonym: public nuisance.






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"Common nuisance" Quotes from Famous Books



... only a declared nuisance, but a constitutional outlaw. And in the case from Pennsylvania where a private individual had abated a nuisance, the court held: "We consider it also well settled, as is claimed by this defendant, that a common nuisance may be removed, or, in legal language, abated by any individual. Any man, says Lord Hale, may justify the removal of a common nuisance, either by land or by Nyater, because every man is ...
— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

... everybody," said Auriol, after the introductions. "I feel like a common nuisance. But I came by the night train and went to sleep and only woke up to find myself just in time for the ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke



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