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Public road

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A highway; a road or way established and adopted (or accepted as a dedication) by the proper authorities for the use of the general public, and over which every person has a right to pass and to use it for all purposes of travel or transportation to which it is adapted and devoted.

Cincinnati R. Co., v. Com., 80 Ky. 138; Shelby Co.unty v. Castetter, 7 Ind. App. 309, 33 N. B.986; Abbott v.Duiuth (C. Ct) 104 Fed. 837; Heninger v. Peery, 102 Va. 896, 47 S. E. 1013.