Private way
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A right which a person has of passing over the land of another.
Jones v. Venable, 120 Ga. 1, 47 S. E. 549; Whiting . Dudley, 19 Wend. (N. Y.) 376; Kister v. Rees-er, 98 Pa. 1, 42 Am. Rep. 608; Kripp v. Curtis, 71 Cal. 62, 11 Pan. 879.
In another sense (chiefly In New England) a private way ls one laid out by the local public authorities for the accommodation of individuals and wholly or chiefly at their expense, but not restricted to their exclusive use, being subject, like highways, to the public easement of passage.
See Metcalf v. Bingham, 3 N. H. 459; Clark v. Boston, O. & M. R. Co., 24 N. II. 118; Denham v. Bristol County, 108 Mass. 202; Butchers', etc., Ass'n v. Boston, 139 Mass. 290, 30 N. E. 94