Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary by Roderick Ramage
Prohibited degrees
A marriage between a person and that person’s adoptive child, adoptive parent, child, former adoptive child, former adoptive parent, grandparent, grandchild, parent, parent’s sibling, sibling, or sibling’s child is void. A marriage to the child of a former spouse or civil partner, the former spouse or civil partner of a parent or grandparent, the grandchild of former spouse or civil partner is void, unless both parties have attained age 21 and the younger party has not at any time before attaining age 18 been a child of the family in relation to the other party. Marriage Act 1949, s1, Sch 1.
Smell a nuisance
In Barr and others v Biffa Waste, CA (2012), residents in the vicinity of a waste tip issued proceedings against the operator for nuisance by smell. The defence that the environmental legislation modified the common law rights in nuisance was rejected on appeal. The common law right could be cut down only by an express or implied statutory
