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“A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.”
— George Sutherland, Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, 388 (1926).
“Surely every injury imports a damage, though it does not cost the party one farthing, and it is impossible to prove the contrary; for a damage is not merely pecuniary, but an injury imports a damage, when a man is hereby hindered of his right.”
— Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 955.
“Actual perceptible damage is not indispensable as the foundation of an action; it is sufficient to show the violation of a right, in which case the law will presume damage.”
— Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 3 Ld. Raym. 938.
“If a man who makes to another person, upon a solemn occasion, an assertion, upon which that person acts, he lies under an obligation to make good his assertion.”
— Sir John Romilly, M.R., In Re Ward (1862), 31 Beav. 7.
“It is not very consonant with the simplicity of the old law to give two remedies for the same evil.”
— Eyre, C.J., Jefferson v. Bishop of Durham (1797), 2 Bos. & Pull. 122.
“The Court would not endure that a mere form or fiction of law, introduced for the sake of justice, should work a wrong, contrary to the real truth and substance of the thing.”
— Lord Mansfield, Johnson v. Hargreaves (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV. 962.

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“A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.”
— George Sutherland, Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, 388 (1926).
“Surely every injury imports a damage, though it does not cost the party one farthing, and it is impossible to prove the contrary; for a damage is not merely pecuniary, but an injury imports a damage, when a man is hereby hindered of his right.”
— Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 2 Raym. 955.
“Actual perceptible damage is not indispensable as the foundation of an action; it is sufficient to show the violation of a right, in which case the law will presume damage.”
— Holt, C.J., Ashby v. White (1703), 3 Ld. Raym. 938.
“If a man who makes to another person, upon a solemn occasion, an assertion, upon which that person acts, he lies under an obligation to make good his assertion.”
— Sir John Romilly, M.R., In Re Ward (1862), 31 Beav. 7.
“It is not very consonant with the simplicity of the old law to give two remedies for the same evil.”
— Eyre, C.J., Jefferson v. Bishop of Durham (1797), 2 Bos. & Pull. 122.
“The Court would not endure that a mere form or fiction of law, introduced for the sake of justice, should work a wrong, contrary to the real truth and substance of the thing.”
— Lord Mansfield, Johnson v. Hargreaves (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV. 962.

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