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Definition of Private road
1. Noun. A road leading up to a private house. "They parked in the driveway"
Generic synonyms: Road, Route
Terms within: Turnaround
Derivative terms: Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive, Drive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Private Road
Literary usage of Private road
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"Â.1918C. road involved is a private road, and not a public one, ... While the
common carrier is so using this private road under a void contract, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The authority to construct a road for the use of the public, cannot be turned
into an authority to construct a private road. Sometimes contractors agree for ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"private road. A private road Is one the soil of which belongs to the owner of
the field, ... A private road Is a way from public road to public road, ..."
4. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1915)
"237) entitled "An act to amend the Highway Law, in relation to appeal from the
decision of the jury in application for a private road. ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Surveying and Boundaries by Frank Emerson Clark (1922)
"Public or private road may modify rule.—Where a public highway lies between the
land to which it is claimed accretion attaches and the body of water, ..."
6. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1899)
"... J., who tried the cause, thought the commissioners had exceeded their authority
in awarding that a private road should be repaired by the township, ..."
7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"Where a private road extends across the track and right of way of a railroad
company, and connects with a public highway, the company is required to ..."
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