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Practice question: Nuisance

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Practice question

A public nuisance severely harms some neighbors and mildly annoys others. Its community-wide effect is established. Does that inequality alone make it private?
  1. No; unequal individual effects do not defeat the public classification
  2. Yes, every unequal effect makes it private
  3. Yes, only the least affected resident matters
  4. Yes, monetary averages decide classification
  5. Yes, a nuisance must injure everyone identically

Legal references

  • Civil Code RA386: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1949/ra_386_1949.html Articles695 and699–707.

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