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right of way
Also right-of-way.
1. a. The legal right, established by usage, of a person or persons to pass and repass through grounds or property belonging to another.
1768Blackstone Comm. III. 241 When a person..is obstructed by inclosures, or other obstacles,..by which means he cannot enjoy his right of way. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 115 Where a person has a right of way over another's close, and he purchases such close, his right of way is extinguished by the unity of seisin and possession. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 153/1 The proper origin of a private right of way is, a grant from the owner of the soil, whose means of enjoying his own property are abridged thereby. 1890Spectator 30 Aug., Lord Salisbury..insisted upon rights-of-way being established between the British lane and the coast. 1925A. J. Toynbee in Survey Internat. Affairs 1920–23 41 The part played by the League in the problems of the right of way through the Kiel Canal..is noticed in Part III.
fig.1877E. R. Conder Basis Faith ii. 62 Denying our right of way in this inquiry.
b. The right to build and operate a railway line on land belonging to another; the land on which a railway line is built. U.S.
1839Jrnl. Indiana Ho. Representatives 1838 23 Sess. 101 Mr. Blair introduced bill no. 32, to grant the right of way to Illinois. 1883Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) p. xxii, I had the honor to submit to the Department..the draft of a bill..to grant a right of way to the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail 407 On either side of the right-of-way lay mystery in the shape of thickets. 1919T. K. Holmes Man from Tall Timber xxix. 365 The right-of-way of the railroad was not wide enough to halt the conflagration in any case. 1931H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. viii. 94 The locomotives of the Northern Pacific were still a novelty to those who lived along the right of way. 1949Boston Sunday Globe 1 May (Fiction Mag.) 13/5 My suggestion is that you put some guards out there patrolling the right-of-way.
2. A path or thoroughfare which one may lawfully make use of, esp. one traversing the property of another.
1805Times 7 Nov. 4/1 In passing through the inclosures belonging to the Defendant, he arrived at a gate which was fastened, and, considering it a public way, he forced the lock... [He] wrote... I always considered it a public right of way. 1855Macqueen Rep. Sc. Appeals 451 That the terminus of a public right of way need not itself be a public place. 1894A. Robertson Nuggets, etc. 177, I went into a right-of-way, and showed about a hair-breadth of my right eye in the direction of the shop.
3. a. The legal right of a pedestrian or user of a (motor) vehicle to proceed with precedence over other vehicles and road-users at a particular point where their paths cross or converge. Also of sea-traffic.
1913Evidence Sel. Comm. Motor Traffic I. 343/2 in Parl. Papers VIII. 93 One of the objections raised here by other witnesses to it was that vehicles going along the main thoroughfares would not slow up at all for the side streets if they thought they had the right of way? 1920Statutes of Manitoba 10 Geo. V. c. 81 s. 10 p. 268 When a person operating a motor vehicle meets another person operating a motor vehicle or driving any draft animal at a crossroad or intersection of roads or streets, the person to the right hand of the other shall have the right-of-way. 1925Motor 29 Dec. 1100/1 The existing rule of the road being ‘keep to the left’, surely so long as a driver can drive on the left of the centre of the road he has right of way. 1934Glasgow Herald 16 Apr. 11/5 There must be crossing-places where the pedestrians' right of way is inviolable and the motorist must pass over at his peril. 1954Highway Code ii. 6 Give way to pedestrians on uncontrolled zebra crossings. They have the right of way. 1954Lloyd's List Law Rep. I. 144/2 That does not, of course, mean to say that the upcoming ship has anything in the nature of an absolute right of way, because, as has been frequently laid down, there must be some give and take between the two vessels. 1958U.S. & Canad. Aviation Reports 453 As a seaplane was coming down to a lake for a landing..another seaplane started its take-off run..its pontoons damaged the wing and rudder as it passed over. Held: The take-off airplane pilot was solely at fault for failing to yield right-of-way to the descending seaplane. 1975N.Y. Times 31 Oct. 38/2 Sylvester Lachut was cited by a Castle Shannon patrolman for failing to yield the right-of-way at a street crossing.
b. transf. in Sport.
1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 204 Reference is made to..trail hogs who do not give the right of way to slower skiers. 1967J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss., Right of way, the surfer who is already on the wave and riding has the right of way and others coming into the wave should respect this right.
4. attrib., as (in sense 1 b) right-of-way man, one who surveys a right of way for a railway.
1891Harper's Mag. Nov. 886/2 The first men to follow the engineers..are ‘the right-of-way men’. 1904F. Lynde Grafters xxviii. 361 Our right-of-way man has just sent a telegram to all agents. |