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Nuisance is a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the
reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is
offensive. This term emerged in the late nineteenth century to refer to any
environmental problem, for example, odor nuisance, garbage nuisance. It is
a common law tort. It is one of the oldest causes of action known to the
common law, with cases framed in nuisance going back almost to the
beginning of recorded case decisions.
“Nuisance” includes any act, omission, place or thing which causes or
is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance or offence to the sense of
sight, smell or hearing, or which is or may be dangerous to life or
injurious to health or property. ….. [Section 2(29), the Paurashava
Ordnance, 1977; Section 2(28), the Dhaka Municipal Corporation Ordinance,
1983; the Cantonments Act, 1924]
A person is guilty of public nuisance who does an act or is guilty of an
illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the
public or to the or to the people in general who dwell or occupy property
in the vicinity, or which must necessarily cause injury, obstruction,
danger or annoyance to persons who may have occasion to use any public
right. ….. [Section 268 of the Penal Code, 1860]
The term ‘nuisance’ has not been given any specific definition in the
statute. Follow¬ing the accepted judicial pronouncements it may be
described as an unlawful interference with a person's use or enjoyment of
land/building or some right over it or in con¬nection with it. There are
two kinds of nuisances-public and private. A public nuisance is one which
affects the public generally as an annoyance while a private nuisance is
one which injures a private person which the law regards as in excess of
the annoyance suffered by the pub¬lic at large. To constitute of a private
nuisance it is enough to show that there is a material interference with
the physical comfort of hu¬man existence according to plain, sober and
simple notions among the common people. ….. [Wahid Mia alias Abdul Wahid
Bhuiyan Vs. Dr. Rafiqul Islam and others, 16BLD (HCD)255]
See, Section 132A to Section 148 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (v
of 1898); Section 91 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (v of 1908).
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