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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NEW LONDON COUNTY,
    SEPTEMBER TERM, A. D. 1772.
    Chapman v. Chapman.
    Where a penalty is given for continuing a nuisance per week, one o-nly may be sued for at a time.
   Upon a writ of error it was adjudged — That in a prosecution upon the statute for the penalty of five shillings per week, for overflowing the lands of another. The penalty for one week only, may he sued for at a time; as the penalty is given for continuing the nuisance each week, and to oblige him to remove it; it doth not appear but, that, if it had beeu prosecuted for the first week, it would have produced the effect which the law intended.