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Excerpt from The Revised Reports, Vol. 16: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, From the Year 1785, as Are Still of Practical Utility; 1815-1817
Rose v. Mics, p. 405, may be considered a leading case on the right to sue for particular damage arising from a common nuisance. Stephens v. Etwall, p. 458, is a strong application of the rule that a man intermeddles with others' property at his peril, and, if he turns out to be in the wrong, is not necessarily or usually excused even by the best intentions. There is something quaint and peculiarly English in the memory of that most upright and learned judge, Mr. Justice Heath, being honoured as it were accidentally in a case on a sale of prime singed bacon which had been tried by him in the first instance (yates v. Pym, p. In Ballard v. Harrison, p. 497, Lord Ellenborough gives us an elegant phrase.
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