Street
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Implies highway, or an easement for public travel. Cox v. Louisville, &c.
R. R. Co., 48 Ind. 178; Kelsey v. King, 33 How. Pr. 39.
Street is a portion of land set apart for passage or travel. The term does not include a park.
Perrin v. New York Central E. R. Co., 36 N. Y. 120.
A resolution of city authorities that a designated street be macadamized and adamizing the sidewalks.
Mayo v. Haynie,- 50 Cal. 70.
That street means the cartway between the curbs, see Philadelphia v. Lea, 9 Phila. 106. The term street does not include a chartered toll-road within a city.
Wilson v. AUegheny City, 79 Pa. St. 272.
Nor a water-way in a lake running between water-lots into the bay, although the city has constructed thereon a macadamized causeway.
Reed v. Erie, 79 Pa. St. 346.
Nor a road owned by a turnpike or other private corporation.
Quinn v
City of Paterson, 27 N. J. L. 35. ^TRICTUS.
Strict; exact.
Strictum jus
Strict law. The rigor of the law as distinguished from equity. See Strictxssimi Juris. Strictissimi juris. Of the strictest right. Subject to the strictest construction and most rigorous application of the law. An expression applied to licenses and grants very advantageous to the licensee or grantee. Instead of the superlative form, the simple positive, stricti juris, is often used, with nearly the same meaning.