Road

A passage through the country for the use of the people. Roads are public or private. Public roads are laid out by public authority, or dedicated by individuals to the land over which they are made remains the proprietor of the soil, and is therefore entitled to all the fruits which grow by its side, and to all the mineral wealth they contain.

1 Rolle, 392, 1.5; 4 Day, R. 328; 1 Conn. R. 108; 6 Mass. R. 464; 4 Mass. R. 427; 15 Johns. R. 447, 583; 2 Johns. R. 357; Com. Dig. Chimin, A 2.

Private roads are such as are used for private individuals only, and are not wanted for the public generally. Sometimes roads of this kind-are wanted for the accommodation of land otherwise enclosed and without access ‘to public roads. The soil of such roads belongs to the owner of the land over which they are made. Public roads are kept in repair at the public expense, and private roads by those who use them. Vide Way.