attractive nuisance
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attractive nuisance — see nuisance Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. attractive nuisance … Law dictionary
Attractive Nuisance — The legal doctrine is at Attractive nuisance doctrine. Infobox Album | Name = Attractive Nuisance Type = Album Artist = The Loud Family Released = Feb 22, 2000 Recorded = 1999 Genre = Rock Length = 50:09 Label = Alias Records Producer = Scott… … Wikipedia
attractive nuisance — noun anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance; they should fence it in • Hypernyms: ↑nuisance * * * noun : something (as a turntable or scaffold) unsafe and… … Useful english dictionary
attractive nuisance — An unusual condition, instrumentality, machine, or other agency on premises which is dangerous to children of tender years but so interesting and luring to them as to attract them to the premises. Hayko v Colorado & Utah Coal Co., 77 Colo 143,… … Ballentine's law dictionary
attractive nuisance doctrine — A legal doctrine that makes a property owner responsible for harm caused by leaving a piece of equipment or other condition on the property that would be both attractive and dangerous to curious children. Examples of attractive nuisances are… … Law dictionary
Attractive nuisance doctrine — Attractive nuisance redirects here. For the album, see Attractive Nuisance. Under the attractive nuisance doctrine of the law of torts, a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by a… … Wikipedia
attractive nuisance — 1. Law. a doctrine of tort law under which a person who creates or permits to exist on his or her land a dangerous condition attractive to children, as an unfenced swimming pool, is liable for their resulting injuries, even though the injured are … Universalium
attractive nuisance doctrine — The doctrine is that person who has an instrumentality, agency, or condition upon his own premises, or who creates such condition on the premises of another, or in a public place, which may reasonably be apprehended to be a source of danger to… … Black's law dictionary
attractive nuisance doctrine — The doctrine is that person who has an instrumentality, agency, or condition upon his own premises, or who creates such condition on the premises of another, or in a public place, which may reasonably be apprehended to be a source of danger to… … Black's law dictionary
attractive nuisance doctrine — The principle followed in many jurisdictions, but with some diversity of opinion as to the requisite conditions for its application, that one who maintains or permits upon his premises a condition, instrumentality, machine, or other agency which… … Ballentine's law dictionary
