Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

cognate nuisance

Rare. Interference with an easement. "The term nuisance is applied to torts of two distinct groups, first, acts of wrongful user by an owner or possessor of land resulting in an unreasonable interference with the rights of enjoyment of the owner or possessor of neighboring land, and, second, wrongful interferences with easements or other incorporeal rights." William F. Walsh, A Treatise on Equity 170 (1930). "When an easement was interfered with, an action on the case lay as a matter of course .... Such an interference is sometimes called 'cognate nuisance' to distinguish it from interferences with the personal enjoyment of the incidents of occupying the land." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 486 (3d ed. 1990)