Legal Principle: Nuisance as a tort (civil wrong) means an unlawful interference with a person's use for enjoyment of land, or some right over, or in connection with it.Factual Situation: During the scarcity of onions, long queues were outside the defendants shop who having a license to sell fruits and vegetables used to sell only 1 kg of onion per ration card. The queues extended on to the highway and also caused some obstruction to the neighboring shops. The neighboring shopkeepers brought an action for nuisance against the defendant. (CLAT 2015)

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Legal Principle: Nuisance as a tort (civil wrong) means an unlawful interference with a person's use for enjoyment of land, or some right over, or in connection with it.<br>Factual Situation: During the scarcity of onions, long queues were outside the defendants shop who having a license to sell fruits and vegetables used to sell only 1 kg of onion per ration card. The queues extended on to the highway and also caused some obstruction to the neighboring shops. The neighboring shopkeepers brought an action for nuisance against the defendant. (CLAT 2015)






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