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NUISANCE ACTION [8 records]

Record 1 2016-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

The private action for public nuisance is frequently encountered where the plaintiff is injured or where his chattel is damaged by reason of a dangerous condition of property near a highway.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

L'expression «en nuisance publique» désigne la branche du droit à laquelle se rapporte l'action et l'expression «pour nuissance publique» met l'accent sur le préjudice subi.

OBS

action privée en nuisance publique; action privée pour nuisance publique : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Legal Actions
CONT

This remedy [old assize of nuisance in the thirteenth century] was supplanted eventually by the action on the case for nuisance, the parent of today's private nuisance action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Actions en justice
CONT

Ce recours [ancienne «assize of nuisance» au treizième siècle] a par le suite été remplacé par l'action dite «case» pour nuisance, qui est à l'origine de l'action fondée sur la nuisance privée que nous connaissons aujourd'hui.

OBS

L'expression «en nuisance privée» désigne la branche du droit à laquelle se rapporte l'action et l'expression «pour nuisance privée» met l'accent sur le préjudice subi.

OBS

action en nuisance privée; action pour nuisance privée : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

At common law, an action to recover damages that are not the immediate result of a wrongful act but rather a later consequence.

OBS

This action was the precursor to a variety of modern-day tort claims, including negligence, nuisance, and business torts.

OBS

Historical term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

trespass on the case : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Liability for nuisance may be based either on something the defendant has done or has omitted to do when there was a duty for him to take affirmative action.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

responsabilité pour nuisance : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2004-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

Only persons who would be successful in a cause of action are entitled to abate a nuisance unless he suffers some particular injury over and above that suffered by the rest of the public.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
CONT

Seules les personnes qui auraient gain de cause dans une action sont fondées à recourir à la suppression. Ainsi, un particulier ne peut supprimer une nuisance s'il ne subit pas un préjudice distinct de celui subi par le reste de la population.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho de ilícitos civiles (common law)
PHR

suprimir un daño; suprimir un acto perjudicial.

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Record 6 2003-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
CONT

A person with an interest in land could bring an action for nuisance from building work either for a direct interference with the land by the work, or for "sensible personal discomfort" resulting from the work which caused non-direct damage to the amenity of the land, provided such personal discomfort was the result of the work having been conducted without reasonable consideration for neighbouring properties.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité

Spanish

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Record 7 2003-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

Future damages that, based on the facts pleaded and proved by the plaintiff, can reasonably be expected to occur.

CONT

The operation of the St. Andrews dam, constructed downstream by the federal government between 1903 and 1910 resulted in the gradual erosion of the river bank and forced the plaintiff in 1986, to abandon her home and to construct a new one farther away from the river. The plaintiff in this action, initially representative in nature, claimed damages for past injury. She also claimed in nuisance, seeking declarations tha there was a continuing nuisance, as to breach of duty and as to interference with riparian rights, and prospective damages.

OBS

prospective damages: Term used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • prospective damage

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

dommages-intérêts potentiels: Terme pluriel d'usage.

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-04-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
  • Legal Actions
DEF

[a writ] brought to recover damages for a loss or injury resulting not directly but indirectly or consequentially, from the act complained of.

CONT

[This] writ was worded similarly to that for trespass but omitted the words "vi et armis", and an action on the case could be had for every circumstance where a man had suffered loss or damage.(...) Actions on the case were either trespass on the case covering wrongs similar to those covered by the writ of trespass, but without immediate violence; or general actions on the case giving a remedy for all other wrongs, particularly for waste, deceit and nuisance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire
  • Actions en justice

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho procesal
  • Acciones judiciales
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