Examples of nuisance

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There is a need to determine these nuisances in future studies.
Zoning grew from the failure of the law of nuisances to adequately handle the rapid growth and scientific development of cities.
In addition to paving, cleansing, lighting the streets and providing watchmen, they might be empowered to deal with a variety of nuisances.
Alleged nuisances were most often treated as technical problems that required adjustments in the technology or its management.
Frequent overflowing caused nuisances and aesthetic problems, as did scavengers' night soil carts.
Unfortunately, politicians, planners and the directors of private enterprise are not yet legally required to live with the nuisances they have generated before taking decisions to augment those nuisances.
The tort might be described as a species of private nuisance, namely unreasonable interference with the victim's rights to use the highway.
There, passenger traffic was light, and was generally regarded as a nuisance.
The conflicting land-use is first analysed under a unified management scheme where two regimes are investigated, the 'normal case' and the 'nuisance case'.
The book is divided into six parts, targeting the pests of pasture, field crops and vegetables, fruit, forestry, weeds and nuisance pests.
Both studies were performed concurrently, but independently, to address the lack of information on the winter survival of nuisance fly parasitoids.
Actions were begun by the employing newspapers alleging nuisance, intimidation, harassment, and interference with commercial contracts.
Moreover, the condition of non-natural user, though similar to unreasonable user in nuisance, normally involves some degree of exceptional risk which unreasonable user does not.
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