Which term means a purposeful interference with another party's enjoyment of his or her property?

• A. Nuisance per se
• B. Intentional nuisance
• C. Public nuisance
• D. Conversion

Answer: (B)

Nuisance as a tort involves interfering with another’s use or enjoyment of land. When the interference is intentional—meaning the actor intends to cause the interference or acts with knowledge that it will occur—that is called intentional nuisance. This fits the idea of a purposeful disruption to someone else’s enjoyment of property, such as deliberately creating loud noise or odors to disturb a neighbor. Nuisance per se refers to activities that are inherently wrongful by their nature or illegal per se, not required to be intentional; public nuisance affects the community at large rather than a private owner; and conversion is the wrongful act of taking or using someone else’s property rather than interfering with their enjoyment of land.