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nui·sance

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–noun

1.	an obnoxious or annoying person, thing, condition, practice, etc.: a monthly meeting that was more nuisance than pleasure.

2.	Law. something offensive or annoying to individuals or to the community, esp. in violation of their legal rights.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME nu(i)sa(u)nce < AF, equiv. to nuis(er) to harm (≪ L nocére) + -ance -ance

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n.

One that is inconvenient, annoying, or vexatious; a bother: Having to stand in line was a nuisance. The disruptive child was a nuisance to the class.
Law A use of property or course of conduct that interferes with the legal rights of others by causing damage, annoyance, or inconvenience.

[Middle English, from Old French, from nuire, nuis-, to harm, from Vulgar Latin *nocere, from Latin nocēre; see nek-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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nuisance

c.1410, "injury, hurt, harm," from Anglo-Fr. nusaunce, from O.Fr. nuisance, from pp. stem of nuire "to harm," from L. nocere "to hurt" (see noxious). Sense has softened over time, to "anything obnoxious to a community" (bad smells, pests, eyesores), 1661, then "source of annoyance, something personally disagreeable" (1831). Applied to persons from 1695.

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nuisance
noun
1.	(law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive
2.	a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain" [syn: pain]

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nuisance [ˈnjuːsns] noun

a person or thing that is annoying or troublesome
Example: That child is a terrible nuisance.

Arabic:	إزْعاج، مَصْدَر إزْعاج
Chinese (Simplified):	讨厌的人（或东西）
Chinese (Traditional):	討厭的人(或東西)
Czech:	protiva, otrava, nepříjemnost
Danish:	belastning; plage
Dutch:	lastig iem., *iets
Estonian:	tüütus
Finnish:	kiusankappale
French:	plaie, fléau
German:	die Plage
Greek:	ενόχληση, μπελάς
Hungarian:	kellemetlenség
Icelandic:	plága, sem er til vandræða
Indonesian:	pengacau
Italian:	seccatura

Japanese:	うるさいもの
Korean:	귀찮은 사람; 방해
Latvian:	traucēklis
Lithuanian:	kas įkyrus, varginantis, įkyruolis
Norwegian:	plage(ånd), pest og plage, uting
Polish:	coś dokuczliwego, utrapienie
Portuguese (Brazil):	amolação
Portuguese (Portugal):	maçada
Romanian:	belea, pacoste
Russian:	досада, неприятность; нудный человек
Slovak:	otrava
Slovenian:	nadloga
Spanish:	molestia, fastidio
Swedish:	plåga, bråkstake
Turkish:	dert, baş belâsı şey, musibet

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Main Entry: nui·sance
Pronunciation: 'nüs-^&ns, 'nyüs-
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French nusaunce, from Old French nuire to harm, from Latin nocEre
: something (as an act, object, or practice) that invades or interferes with another's rights or interests (as the use or enjoyment of property) by being offensive, annoying, dangerous, obstructive, or unhealthful

at·trac·tive nuisance
1 : a thing or condition on one's property that poses a risk to children who may be attracted to it without realizing the risk by virtue of their youth
2 : a doctrine or theory employed in most jurisdictions: a possessor of property may be liable for injury caused to a trespassing or invited child by a condition on the property if he or she failed to use ordinary care in preventing such injury (as by fencing in a pool) and had reason to foresee entry by the child and if the utility of the condition was minor compared to the likelihood of injury <declined to extend the doctrine of attractive nuisance…to moving trains —Honeycutt v. City of Wichita, 796 Pacific Reporter, Second Series 549 (1990)>
NOTE: The doctrine of attractive nuisance originated in an 1873 U.S. Supreme Court case Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company v. Stout, 84 U.S. 657 (1873), involving a trespassing child injured by a railroad turntable; an early premise was that the attractive nuisance caused the trespass, and so by extension the owner was responsible for the trespass as well. Subsequent modification of the doctrine has focused on the possessor's duty to use care in preventing injury, whether a child is a trespasser or invitee.

common nuisance
: PUBLIC NUISANCE in this entry

nuisance at law
: NUISANCE PER SE in this entry

nuisance in fact
: an act, occupation, or structure that is considered a nuisance in relation to its circumstances or surroundings <a lawful business may be a nuisance in fact in a particular location> called also nuisance per accidens —compare NUISANCE PER SE in this entry

nuisance per se
: an act, occupation, or structure that is considered a nuisance regardless of its circumstances or surroundings <a house of prostitution is a nuisance per se> called also nuisance at law —compare NUISANCE IN FACT in this entry

private nuisance
: something (as an activity) that constitutes an unreasonable interference in the right to the use and enjoyment of one's property and that may be a cause of action in civil litigation

public nuisance
: something that unreasonably interferes with the health, safety, comfort, morals, or convenience of the community and that is treated as a criminal violation <declared that the landfill was a present and prospective public nuisance and ordered…operations to cease —SCA Servs. v. Transportation Insurance Company, 646 North Eastern Reporter, Second Series 394 (1995)> called also common nuisance

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Nuisance

No"cent\, a. [L. nocens, p. pr. of nocere to hurt. See Nuisance, Noxious.]

1. Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities. --I. Watts.

2. Guilty; -- the opposite of innocent. [Obs.] --Foxe.

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Nox"ious\, a. [L. noxius, fr. noxa harm; akin to nocere to harm, hurt. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.]

1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.

Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. --Swift.

2. Guilty; criminal. [R.]

Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. --Abp. Bramhall.

Syn: Noisome; hurtful; harmful; injurious; destructive; pernicious; mischievous; corrupting; baneful; unwholesome; insalubrious. See Noisome. -- Nox"ious*ly, adv. -- Nox"ious*ness, n.

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Nuisance

Nui"sance\, n. [OE. noisance, OF. noisance, nuisance, fr. L. nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm; akin to necare to kill. Cf Necromancy, Nocent, Noxious, Pernicious.] That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only.

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Nuisance

Per*ni"cious\, a. [L. perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from pernecare to kill or slay outright; per + necare to kill, slay: cf. F. pernicieux. Cf. Nuisance, Necromancy.] Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.

Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. --Shak.

Pernicious to his health. --Prescott.

Syn: Destructive; ruinous; deadly; noxious; injurious; baneful; deleterious; hurtful; mischievous. -- Per*ni"cious*ly, adv., -- Per*ni"cious*ness, n.

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Nuisance

Pri"vate\ (?; 48), a. [L. privatus apart from the state, peculiar to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward (hence, alone, single) and akin to prae before. See Prior, a., and cf. Deprive, Privy, a.]

1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

2. Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.

Reason . . . then retires Into her private cell when nature rests. --Milton.

3. Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. --Shak.

A private person may arrest a felon. --Blackstone.

4. Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.

5. Having secret or private knowledge; privy. [Obs.]

Private act or statute, a statute exclusively for the settlement of private and personal interests, of which courts do not take judicial notice; -- opposed to a general law, which operates on the whole community .

Private nuisance or wrong. See Nuisance.

Private soldier. See Private, n., 5.

Private way, a right of private passage over another man's ground. --Kent.

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Pub"lic\, a. [L. publicus, poblicus, fr. populus people: cf. F. public. See People.]

1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.

To the public good Private respects must yield. --Milton.

He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. --D. Webster.

2. Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.

Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. --Matt. i. 19.

3. Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house. "The public street." --Shak.

Public act or statute (Law), an act or statute affecting matters of public concern. Of such statutes the courts take judicial notice.

Public credit. See under Credit.

Public funds. See Fund, 3.

Public house, an inn, or house of entertainment.

Public law. (a) See International law, under International. (b) A public act or statute.

Public nuisance. (Law) See under Nuisance.

Public orator. (Eng. Universities) See Orator, 3.

Public stores, military and naval stores, equipments, etc.

Public works, all fixed works built by civil engineers for public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost.

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