What is the liability of a landowner who expressly authorizes the nuisance?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Zhou v. De Melo, 2019 ONSC 830 (CanLII):
Liability attaches to anyone who either creates or causes a nuisance. It also attaches to a person, such as a landowner, who expressly authorizes the nuisance or where the nuisance is certain to result from the purposes for which the property is used: Smith v. Scott, [1972] 3 All E.R. 645.
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