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June 5. 1826.
Nuisance Penal Code.Ch. II. Off. affectg person & property
Personal vexation

1. A. builds a house hanging
over the house of B.
whereby rain falls upon
it.

2. Or digs a pit in his
land so near that B.'s
land falls into it.

3. Or stop the antient
lights of B's house.

4. Or build a new house
and sell it and afterwards
grant the adjacent
and grantee by an edifice
on it, stop the light of the
other house, though not an
antient house.

5. Or by throwing logs &c
he stops the lights of
the other house.

6. Or fixes a spout to his
own house, whereby the
rain falls into the yard
of another & injures the
foundation of his buildings.

7. Or erect, anything offensive
so near the
house of another that it
becomes useless thereby – as
a bog piege, or a lime
Kiln, or a dye hose,
or a tallow furnace,
or a privy or new house,
or a tan fatt, or a smelting
house, or a smiths forge.


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8. Or erect a wash House
Stable &c. and put filth in
it to the annoyance of a
garden.

9 – bundle of hay, permits
it to lie after the time agreed
upon for carrying it away,
whereby the grass is corrupted.

10. Lessee overcharges
his room with weight,
whereby it falls on the cellar
beneath.

11. A. erects a mill, so
near to B's antient mill,
that the water to B's mill is
obstructed, or divated.

12. Or a new mill upon
a stream that did not
used to be divated.

13. Or stop a watercourse,
whereby land is overflowed.

14. Or erects a fence near
to B.'s antient fence.

15. Or, without warrant,
erects a market to the
prejudice of another market.

16. Or has a patent for a
fair or market in the
next town to B's fair or
market, & upon the same
day: or upon another
day, and at miles
distance, being without
warrant & to the prejudice
of B.'s market.


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17. A divats water
by a pipe & cock to his
house – wife continues
in the same house and
uses the water after his
death.

18. A. B. for a
nuisance, who continues
it by making a
lease of it to another.

Not

19. A. erects a mill near
to the mill of B. whereby
G. loses a part of
his profit.

20. Or sets up a school
so near the study of B.
a lawyer, that the noise
interrupting his studies.

21. Schoolmaster sets
up near the school
of another.

22. A. builds a house,
whereby the prospect of
B. is interrupted; or
converts land to pasture,
where none but B. had
pasture before, so that B.
is prejudiced.

23. Foreigner uses a
trade within a borough
to the prejudice of a freeman:
– not being restrained
by a customer by-law.


Identifier: | JB/064/122/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 64.

Date_1

1826-06-05

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-23

Box

064

Main Headings

Penal Code

Folio number

122

Info in main headings field

Nuisance Penal Code

Image

001

Titles

Category

Marginal summary sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

George Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

20476

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