From Black's Law Dictionary - Definition
                   of 'NUISANCE'

NUISANCE  Nuisance is that activity which arises from
unreasonable,unwarranted or unlawful use by a person
of his own property, working obstruction or injury to
right of another, or to the public, and producing such
material annoyance, inconvenience and discomfort that
law will presume resulting damage. State ex rel. Her-
man v. Cardon, 23 Ariz.App. 78, 530 P.2d 1115, 1118.
That which annoys and disturbs one in possession of his
property, rendering its ordinary use or occupation physi-
cally uncomfortable to him; eg smoke, odors, noise, or
vibration. Patton v. Westwood Country Club Co., 18
Ohio App.2d 137, 247 N.E.2d 761@ 763@ 47 0.0.2d 247.
The term is incapable of exhaustive definition which
will fit all cases, as it is very comprehensive and in-
cludes everything that endangers life or health, gives
offense to senses, violates laws of decency, or obstructs
reasonable and comfortable use of property. U.S. v.
County Board of Arlington County, D.C.Va., 487 F.Supp.
137, 143. An offensive, annoying, unpleasant, or obnox-
ious thing or practice; a cause or source of annoyance,
especially a continuing or repeated invasion or distur-
bance of another's right, or anything that works a hurt,
inconvenience or damage. Renken v. Harvey Alu-
minum (Inc.), D.C.Or., 226 F.Supp. 169, 175.

  Nuisances are commonly classed as public, private,
and mixed. A public nuisance is one which affects an
indefinite number of persons, or all the residents of a
particular locality, or all people coming within the ex-
tent of its range or operation, although the extent of the
annoyance or damage inflicted upon individuals may be
unequal. Maintaining a public nuisance is by act, or by
failure to perform a legal duty, intentionally causing or
permitting a condition to exist which injures or endan-
gers the public health, safety or welfare. An invasion of
a person's interest in the private use and enjoyment of
land by any type of liability-forming conduct is termed a
private nuisance. It is a tort against a private person,
and actionable by him as such. As distinguished from
public nuisance, a private nuisance includes any wrong-
ful act which destroys or deteriorates the property of an
individual or of a few persons or interferes with their
lawful use or enjoyment thereof, or any act which un-
lawfully hinders them in the enjoyment of a common or
public right and causes them a special injury different
from that sustained by the general public. Therefore,
although the ground of distinction between public and
private nuisances is still the injury to the community at
large or, on the other hand, to a single individual, it is
evident that the same thing or act may constitute a
public nuisance and at the same time a private nui-
sance. A mixed nuisance is of the kind last described;
that is, it is one which is both public and private in its
effects,-public because it injures many persons or all
the community, and private in that it also produces
special injuries to private rights. Kelley v. New York, 6
Misc. 516, 27 N.Y.S. 164.