"The well-known maxim that you must not, when you have the choice, elect to use your property so as to cause injury to your neighbour.1—"
— Torts

January 1, 1970

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Brett, M.R., Whalley v. Lancashire, &c. Rail. Co. (1884), 13 L: R. Q. B. D. 137. 1 The maxim is Sic utere tuo vt alienum non ladat, 9 Rep. 59. See Br, Leg. Max., tith ed., 347.