 The case confirmed a legal right to abate relatively extreme noise and smell, provided it cannot be justified as being protected by way of an easement have arisen such as from the passing of time (an easement by prescription) or custom on the piece of land in question.The judge recited the separate law, in an "obiter dictum" in an old Latin maxim in the English common law, that there is no right to a view.William Aldred claimed that Thomas Benton had erected and used a pig sty too close to his house, so that the stench made his own house unbearable to live in, including the "stopping of wholesome air".