Public Passage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A right to pass over a body of water. This term is synonymous with "public highway," with this difference: by the latter is understood a right to pass over the land of another; by the former is meant the right of going over the water, which is on another's land.
Carth. 193; Hammond, N. P. 195.