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Street

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

A road in a village or city. In common parlance the word street is equivalent to highway.

4 Serg. & Rawle, 108.

A permission to the public for the space of eight, or even of six years, to use a street without bar or impediment, is evidence from which a dedication to the public may be inferred.

11 East, 376. See 2 N. Hamp. 513; 4 B. & A. 447; 3 East, 294; 1 Law Intell. 134; 2 Smith’s Lead. Cas. 94, n.