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NUISANCE COMMON LAW [2 records]

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Record 1 2009-10-21

English

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

The privilege of abating a nuisance by self-help is of ancient origin and co-existed with the early assize of nuisance which provided a method of compelling abatement by common law process....

French

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

Spanish

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

Práctica social de dejar en manos de los individuos los medios de resolver solos sus problemas.

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Record 2 2006-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private Law
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

In the common law of crime in England a common scold was a species of public nuisance-a troublesome and angry woman who broke the public peace by habitually arguing and quarrelling with her neighbours.

OBS

The offence of being a common scold has become obsolete in the United States because only women could commit it, contrary to current interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause, and because in any case all crimes must be statutory under current interpretations of the due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment of the constitution of the United States. Many states have laws or ordinances restricting public profanity, sometimes blasphemy, excessive noise, or verbal disorderly conduct. But such laws all involve statutory crimes; men as well as women can commit the offences, and they do not carry the distinctive punishment reserved for the common scold.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit privé
  • Infractions et crimes

Spanish

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