Street

A public thoroughfare or highway in a city or village. 4 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 106; 11 Barb. (N. Y.) 399; 39 111. App, 474. See "Highway."

A public way in a city or village, including sidewalks as well as carriage way.

Implies highway, or an easement for public travel. Cox v. Louisville, &c. R. R. Co., 48 Ind. 178; Kelsey v. King, 33 How. Pr. 39. Street is a portion of land set apart for passage or travel. The term does not include a park. Perrin v. New York Central E. R. Co., 36 N. Y. 120. A resolution of city authorities that a designated street be macadamized and adamizing the sidewalks. Mayo v. Haynie,- 50 Cal. 70. That street means the cartway between the curbs, see Philadelphia v. Lea, 9 Phila. 106. The term street does not include a chartered toll-road within a city. Wilson v. AUegheny City, 79 Pa. St. 272. Nor a water-way in a lake running between water-lots into the bay, although the city has constructed thereon a macadamized causeway. Reed v. Erie, 79 Pa. St. 346. Nor a road owned by a turnpike or other private corporation. Quinn v. City of Paterson, 27 N. J. L. 35. ^TRICTUS. Strict; exact. Strictum jus. Strict law. The rigor of the law as distinguished from equity. See Strictxssimi Juris. Strictissimi juris. Of the strictest right. Subject to the strictest construction and most rigorous application of the law. An expression applied to licenses and grants very advantageous to the licensee or grantee. Instead of the superlative form, the simple positive, stricti juris, is often used, with nearly the same meaning.

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.