Lat A writ of nuisance, whicb, by 15 Fdw. I., lay against him to whom a house or other thing that caused a nuisance descended or was alienated ; whereas, before that statute the action lay only against him who first levied or caus-ed the nuisance to the damage of his neigh-bor. Cowell
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)