Talk:disturbance
Latest comment: 4 years ago by DCDuring in topic interference with somebody's rights
interference with somebody's rights[edit]
an act that causes disruption to others or hinders them from pursuing normal legal activities Microsoft® Encarta® 2009
--Backinstadiums (talk) 18:54, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
- Cites? DCDuring (talk) 06:00, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
- @DCDuring: From the OED
4 Law. (See quot. 1765–9.) [1292 Britton ii. xi. §7 Et ausi est home disseisi quel houre qe ly ou sa meyné soit destourbé de user sa peissible seisine par autre qi i cleyme fraunc tenement par teles destourbances.] 1598 Child Marriages 164 He, the said Robert Fletcher, shall‥enioie the same shop as tenant‥without the lett or disturbans of the said John Allen, his executors, or Assignes. 1613 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 291 An assise which may bee either of his owne or his ancestors possession called an assise of darrein presentment is upon a disturbance when himselfe or his ancestor did last present. 1765–9 Blackstone (Mason), Disturbance is a wrong done to some incorporeal hereditament, by hindering or disquieting the owners in their regular, and lawful enjoyment of it. 1768 ― Comm. III. 236 Disturbance of franchises happens, when a man has the franchise of holding a court-leet, of keeping a fair or market [etc.] and he is disturbed or incommoded in the lawful exercise thereof. 1848 Wharton Law Lex., Disturbance‥There are five sorts of this injury, viz., disturbance of (1) franchise, (2) common, (3) ways, (4) tenure, and (5) patronage.
--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:12, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
- So it's not a contemporary usage. It is limited to legal context. The rights are property rights, not civil/political rights. It could be either an act or an injury, ie, result of act. DCDuring (talk) 10:42, 13 January 2020 (UTC)