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Accordingly, formulas have been created for calculating the grumble line and these can be computerized. The term apparently originated prior to electric lighting when one candle-power was said to be the level of light below which a clerk would begin to grumble about the difficulty of reading. The grumble line was the line in the room beyond which there was insufficient light, or in another version, a line halfway across a room within which a reader could read without complaint or else an interfering barrier would have to be removed. Rights to light in buildings date to the Roman era, when many houses and apartments had solaria both for heat and light. Although English common law supports the concept, U.S. law has tended to give precedence to the right of landowners to build without regard for adjacent property's access to light. With the advent of solar-heated buildings, courts have become more open to the rights to light and other solar rays. In the U.K., light entitlement was defined in the Prescription Act of 1832, called "Ancient Lights" or "Rights to Light." This law applies to windows that have been in use for over 20 years. More recently, English courts have specified the grumble line as the line that traces out the 0.2% skylight factor on a surface 850mm above floor level in a room. A grumble line is calculated before and after building construction. If the line calculated after construction infringes on the rights to light, the owner of the building may sue for an injunction to stop building or for compensation. Development planners in the U.K. often work under local guidelines that require much more light than the courts would require under the "rights to light" law. ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: At the University of Sheffield in the U.K., a project for creating grumble line software is described. http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/teaching/msc/mscprojects/research-topic.pdf Theron R. 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