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Definition of Right of way

1. Noun. The privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else.

2. Noun. The right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another.

3. Noun. The passage consisting of a path or strip of land over which someone has the legal right to pass.

Definition of Right of way

1. Noun. The right to proceed first in traffic. ¹

2. Noun. A legal right of passage over another's land or pathways. ¹

3. Noun. A legal easement granted for the construction of a roadway or railway. ¹

4. Noun. Land on which a right of way exists. ¹

5. Noun. The area modified for passage of a railway; often specifically the railbed and tracks. ¹

6. Noun. (fencing uncountable) The priority granted to the first person to properly execute an attack. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Right of way

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The defendant set up that It had a right of way for which It had paid ... The only proof of the right of way was the presence of the wires and poles for ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"On the question -whether paragraph 9 of the tripartite agreement covers not merely the right of way through the park and up to the terminus of the road in ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"Reversed. the land on which the railroad was built and extinguish the Indian title, or did they merely give to the company a right of way or other limited ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"A right of way may also arise by act and operation of law: for, if a man grants me a piece of ground in the middle of his field, he at the same time tacitly ..."

5. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1875)
"By the law of the twelve tables at Rome, whore a man had the right of way over another's iand, and the road was out of repair, he who had the right of way ..."

6. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"Of a Right of Way. § 213. Defined. — Arises from Grant, express or implied, or from Necessity. — A right of way is the right to use the surface of another ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"Foundation of private Right of Way. A private right of way may be said to exist only by grant or agreement; for prescription is but a conclusive presumption ..."

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