Stevens v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The legislature of this state recognizes three classes of ways; and in tracing down their enactments on the subject of roads from 1716 to the date of the approval of the present act concerning roads, they will be found to have treated only of those three classes, to wit, public roads, private roads, and by-roads. The two former can be created by proceedings under legislative regulations, while the latter is assumed to have been created by grant, or in some other mode in which title to a private way is acquired. A by-road is defined by Worcester to be "an unfrequented path, an obscure road."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 186 N.J. Super. 587 - Barile v. Port Republic