The way that the courts would deal with the pollution associated with slaughterhouses, fat melting and bone boiling establishments, and other traditional nuisance industries was by enforcing the nuisance law that would protect those affected by the industrial pollution emitted by these particular industries. The legal doctrines that the courts would generally enforce would come from the principles of the legal proverb: sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas, “so use your own as not to injure others.” This proverb that was personified through the nuisance laws would prevent the industries emitting industrial pollution from using their property in any manner that would interfere with the right of neighbors to enjoy the use of their property. With
