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little Welsh bulls on the property, but unfortunately this cuts both ways. 

 Bulls have little discrimination, and after the owner had been tossed off 

 his own property he might consider that even the points of a lawsuit 

 were preferable to those of a bull's horns. 



Before leaving the subject of trespass it may be remarked that the law 

 recognises certain acts as constituting a technical trespass as distinct from 

 an actual trespass. For instance, it is a trespass to throw stones or 

 rubbish on to a person's land, or for a householder to let his chimney or 

 any other part of his house fall on to his neighbour's land, or to erect a 

 spout on his own land which discharges water on his neighbour's property. 

 Also if a man lets his cattle stray from his own land on to his neighbour's 

 estate it is a trespass (provided the case is one where the neighbour is 

 under no legal obligation to fence his property). Is it a trespass or even 

 a legal nuisance for an orchid-grower to unwittingly import mosquitoes, 

 with the result that they escape into his neighbour's house ? I doubt if 

 any action would lie, as anyone may grow orchids and no one would 

 willingly encourage mosquitoes ; but this point has yet to be judicially 

 settled. 



The notice " Beware of spring guns and man traps " is of course an 

 absurdity in these days, as it is a criminal offence for any person to set or 

 allow to be set on his lands any spring gun, man trap, or other engine 

 calculated to destroy life with the intent of destroying or doing bodily 

 harm to trespassers. Finally, if land adjoining a highway is fenced off 

 with barbed wire, so as to be a nuisance to the highway, the local 

 authority has power to compel its removal. 



