Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
But if the disorders for which it is open be not highly infectious, an
hospital is certainly no nuisance. In the case of _Rex_ v. _Mac Donald_,
3 _Burr. L._ 1645, it was moved that an indictment against the
defendant, for converting his house into an hospital for taking in and
delivering lewd, idle, and disorderly unmarried women, should be
quashed; _Lord Mansfield_ took notice of the narrow principles of the
prosecutors, (the parish, for that they were thereby burthened with
bastards) and expressed his surprise how such a bill could ever be
found, asking “by what law is it criminal to deliver a woman when she is
with child.”
Whether a new comer can have an action for a nuisance has been doubted,
for it was his own act that he came into the neighbourhood, and _volenti
non fit injuria_; but on the other hand see _Westborn_ v. _Mordaunt,
Cro. Eliz._ 191; 2 _Leon._ pl. 129, p. 103; Espin. N. P. 637; and if a
man come into possession of the premises by descent, or operation of
law, or a clergyman to his parsonage, it would appear that he may at any
rate have his action.
It must be observed that every continuance of a nuisance is held to be a
fresh one, and therefore a fresh action will lie; and very exemplary
damages will probably be given, if after one verdict against him the
defendant has the hardiness to continue it; (_Westborn_ v. _Mordaunt_, 2
_Leon. pl._ 121; _Beswick_ v. _Cunden Hill, Cro. Eliz._ 402; _Bull_, _N.
P._ 75; _Espin, N. P._ 637). And it is a continuance, though the
premises constituting the nuisance be let to an under-tenant
subsequently to the verdict against the first tenant for years for the
erection, for he transferred it with the original wrong, and his demise
affirms the continuance of it; he hath also rent as a consideration for
the continuance, and therefore ought to answer the damage it occasions.
_Rosewell_ v. _Prior_, 2 _Salk._ 460, and cases there.
There are other things which may be called nuisances in transitu, such
as the removal of night-soil, garbage, soap boilers-lees, (the waste
lees are the residual liquor after soap-boiling), and other very
stinking refuse; all these should be restrained (as some already are) to
certain hours of the night.
OF IMPOSITIONS.
Under this head we shall comprehend the subject of _Feigned Diseases_,
and that of the _Adulterations of Food_.
FEIGNED, or SIMULATED DISEASES.
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