While it is possible to identify earlier legal structures that would today fall into the " environmental " law metric-for example the common law recognition of private and public rights to protect interests in land, such as nuisance, or post-industrial revolution human health protections-the concept of " environmental law " as a separate and distinct body of law is a 20th Century development.

Prior to the modern proliferation of environmental regulation, the doctrines of nuisance ( public or private ), trespass, negligence, and strict liability apportioned harm and assigned liability for activities that today would be considered pollution and likely governed by regulatory regimes.

The law of nuisance was created to stop such bothersome activities or conduct when they unreasonably interfered either with the rights of other private landowners ( example-private nuisance ) or with the rights of the general public ( example-public nuisance ).

Typically, a private person can make an arrest when: ( 1 ) a misdemeanor amounting to a public nuisance is being committed ; or ( 2 ) a felony has been committed, and the arresting citizen has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested committed it.

Deer are known to be a nuisance especially in causing traffic problems, but can also cause damage to private property by consuming natural and planted vegetation around homes.

In 1997, some residents living on the Isle of Dogs launched a lawsuit against Canary Wharf Ltd for private nuisance because the tower caused interference with television signals.

In the most renowned legal fight of farmers against miners, the farmers sued the hydraulic mining operations and the landmark case of Edwards Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company made its way to the United States District Court in San Francisco where Judge Lorenzo Sawyer decided in favor of the farmers in 1884, declaring that hydraulic mining was “ a public and private nuisance ” and enjoining its operation in areas tributary to navigable streams and rivers.

A nuisance can be either public ( also " common ") or private.

The law of nuisance was created to stop such bothersome activities or conduct when they unreasonably interfered either with the rights of other private landowners ( i. e., private nuisance ) or with the rights of the general public ( i. e., public nuisance )

Any affected property owner has standing to sue for a private nuisance.

Owners of interests in real property ( whether owners, lessors, or holders of an easement or other interest ) have standing only to bring private nuisance suits.

The boundaries of the tort are potentially unclear, due to the public / private nuisance divide, and existence of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher.

In recent decades, however, governments blurred the lines between public and private nuisance causes of action.

A private nuisance is an act, or omission, which causes inconvenience or damage to a private person, and is left to be redressed by action.

A private nuisance, differing in this respect from a public nuisance, may be legalized by uninterrupted use for twenty years.

it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.

It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private detective was recruited.

By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

The private eye is therefore a moral man ; ;

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

What was only a vague suspicion in the case of Sherlock Holmes now appears as a direct accusation: the private eye is in danger of turning into his opposite.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

And the anxiety it generates is misinterpreted as anxiety over private interest and threatened social status.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

the atmosphere is that of an attractive private beach club at home.

The private detective ( at least in the minds of listeners and readers all over the country ) is an individual hero fighting injustice.

The private detective is militant against injustice, a humorous and ironic explorer of the underworld ; ;

Film noir encompasses a range of plots: the central figure may be a private eye ( The Big Sleep ), a plainclothes policeman ( The Big Heat ), an aging boxer ( The Set-Up ), a hapless grifter ( Night and the City ), a law-abiding citizen lured into a life of crime ( Gun Crazy ), or simply a victim of circumstance ( D. O. A .).

He restored pagan temples which had been confiscated since Constantine's time, or simply appropriated by wealthy citizens ; he repealed the stipends that Constantine had awarded to Christian bishops, and removed their other privileges, including a right to be consulted on appointments and to act as private courts.

Murray Bookchin has put it this way " what of the syndicalist ideal of " collectivized " self-managed enterprises that are coordinated by like occupations on a national level and coordinated geographically by " collectives " on a local level ?... Here, the traditional socialist criticism of this syndicalist form of economic management is not without its point: the corporate or private capitalist, " worker-controlled " or not "” ironically, a technique in the repertoire of industrial management that is coming very much into vogue today as " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership " and constitutes no threat whatever to private property and capitalism ... In any case, " economic democracy " has not simply meant " workplace democracy " and " employee ownership.

In this case, the acquiring company simply hires the staff of the target private company, thereby acquiring its talent ( if that is its main asset and appeal ).

The target private company simply dissolves and little legal issues are involved.

From his remarks on the importance of public, observable behavior ( as opposed to private experiences ), it may seem that Wittgenstein is simply a behaviorist — one who thinks that mental states are nothing over and above certain behavior.

But for private cars it is limited in some mountainous areas where the passes are closed in winter or simply does not exist ( Lötschberg ).

Others fast during Lent or simply on a regular, private basis.

As a practical matter, the limitation of Congress's ability to investigate only for a proper purpose (" in aid of " its legislative powers ) functions as a limit on Congress's ability to investigate the private affairs of individual citizens ; matters that simply demand action by another branch of government, without implicating an issue of public policy necessitating legislation by Congress, must be left to those branches due to the doctrine of separation of powers.

For smaller companies, intranets may be created simply by using private IP address ranges, such as 192. 168. 0. 0 / 16.

The Johns Hopkins University ( informally Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins ) is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Today, according to the UN, any kind of private organization that is independent from government control can be termed an " NGO ", provided it is not-profit, non-criminal and not simply an opposition political party.

Carnegie Mellon University ( also known as Carnegie Mellon or simply CMU ) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Stated simply, the security of a cryptosystem should depend solely on the secrecy of the key and the private randomizer.

Kalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

There can also be non-political governors: high-ranking officials in private or similar governance such as commercial and non-profit management, styled governor ( s ), who simply govern an institution, such as a corporation or a bank.

Besides the cour d ’ honneur ( court of honour ) entrance, the château might have an inner cour (“ court ”), and inside, in the private residence, the château faces a simply and discreetly enclosed park.

The word ' dishwasher ' ( or abbreviated as simply " dish ") may also refer to a person who washes dishes in a restaurant, hotel or other private or commercial entities.

Speaking for the majority, Taney ruled that because Scott was simply considered the private property of his owners, that he was subject to the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the taking of property from its owner " without due process ".

Founded in 1901, Golden Gate University ( informally referred to as GGU, or simply as Golden Gate ) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university located in the Financial District of downtown San Francisco, California.

There is also a requirement that the trust's purposes benefit the public ( or some section of the public ), and not simply a group of private individuals.

In private, such as after a bath, the yukata may be simply belted.

" For other public or private bills, the formula is simply La Reyne le veult ( the Queen wills it ).