The interference
that amounts to the tort of nuisance usually varies according to the nature and
standard of the neighborhood in question.
The tort of
private nuisance is primarily concerned with indirect interference with
personal convenience, use of enjoyment of land or some right over land, including buildings,
fixtures, crops, animal or any right
over land such as right of way,
easement, profit a pandre, right of support riparian rights and so forth. Therefore, in defining private nuisance , one can say that, it
is any unlawful or unreasonable
interference with another persons convenience, use an enjoyment of land or any
right touching and running with the
land.
There must be a
continuous interference, in private nuisance. However, a temporary interference
is usually not a private nuisance unless, the interference is substantial. in De Keyser’s Royal Hotel ltd V Spices Bos
Ltd (194) 30tlr 257, a noisy pile
driving at night in the course of
building was held to be a private nuisance. Similarly, a single
act of interference is not usually a
private nuisance, except where it
is a climax in a state of affairs. In
the same manner, a single act of interference may amount to a public nuisance.