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Definition of Attractive nuisance
1. 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"
Definition of Attractive nuisance
1. Noun. (legal) In the legal area of torts, a hazardous object or condition that is likely to attract children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or condition, and to whom the landowner can therefore be held liable for injuries. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attractive Nuisance
Literary usage of Attractive nuisance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. L.R.A. as Authorities: Including the Citations of Each Case as Precedent, (1 by Lawyers' reports annotated, United States Supreme Court (1914)
"Cited in note (19 LRA (NS) 1130) on attractive nuisance. 54 LRA 286, DANIELS v.
STATE, 2 Penn. ( Del. ) 580, 48 Atl. 196. Character evidence. ..."
2. The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Forty by James Manford Kerr, California (1922)
"Ж. Ch. II.l ACTION FOR NUISANCE—«ATTRACTIVE .NUISANCE." when this is done, the
question of their sufficiency for the purpose Intended, the protection of the ..."
3. A Complete Index of the Notes in Annotated Cases, American and English by Eugene Glenroy Kreider (1922)
"attractive nuisance doctrine as applied to municipality. 1915C-286. —cross-ties
piled in street as attractive nuisance. 2-504. ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"This is not even the case of an "attractive nuisance" on the property of another,
which would render that ... The bridge was not an attractive nuisance. ..."
5. Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series. Cases Adjudged in the Circuit Courts by Ohio Circuit Courts (1918)
"Several cases are cited by plaintiff in error from other states in which it is
held that the doctrine of attractive nuisance does apply ..."
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