Talk:Nuisance
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Nuisance is more related to Property law than Tort law, however, and has become a subject invovling judicially created limitations on land use.
- There is some overlap but I wouldn't go so far as to say nuisance is more property law than tort. In my understanding nuisance relates more to relationship between people rather than the relationship between the people and their property. In any event, from my memory I've never seen a property textbook discuss nuisance but there isn't a tort book without a chapter on it. --PullUpYourSocks 04:15, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nuisance beyond law(?)
Is it not characteristic of nuisance that it typically presents as petty and is therefore not easily addressed or resolved by law, contrary to the current impression given by this article? Indeed, is not one of the term's very definitions 'a problem which, however serious, long-term and intractable, appears too petty, on the face of it, to be addressed by standard procedures'? Is it not also worthy of mention that addressing nuisance is one of the conspicuous weaknesses of existing police and legal systems, often rendering victims helpless, violent, or resorting to the mediation agencies of the voluntary sector? Given that there tends to be a gap between that which can credibly be addressed by existing legal/enforcement recourses and resources, and that which can't or shouldn't, is it not the very nature of nuisance to inhabit such a 'no man's land'? In which case, should not the article include, at some point, a disclaimer to this effect? --Etaonsh 19:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
