Torts affecting person &Property: Nuisance, Negligence, Fraud

The flour mill downstairs from your flat in Kharghar runs from six in the morning, and the dust settles on your balcony. A scooter rider slips on an oil patch outside a shop that nobody cleaned, and breaks her wrist. A seller tells a buyer the flat has a clear title, knowing that it has a dispute pending. None of these is a direct blow, yet each injures a person or property. The law puts them in three different boxes: nuisance, negligence and fraud. What decides which box a case falls into?

In two minutes

Nuisance is unreasonable interference with the use or enjoyment of land; negligence is breach of a legal duty of care causing damage; fraud (deceit) is a knowingly false statement made with intent that the plaintiff act on it, causing loss.

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