Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

absolute nuisance

1. Interference with a property right that a court considers fixed or invariable, such as a riparian owner's right to use a stream in its natural condition. 2. See nuisance per se. 3. Interference in a place where it does not reasonably belong, even if the interfering party is careful. 4. Interference for which a defendant is held strictly liable for resulting harm, esp. in the nature of pollution. Cf. qualified nuisance. Sense (4) has been disapproved: "[T]he use of the term nuisance' to describe the tort liability that sometimes results from accidental invasions produces too much confusion." Prosser and Keeton on the Law of Torts § 89, at 637 (W. Page Keeton ed., 5th ed. 1984).