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Right of way   /raɪt əv weɪ/   Listen
Right of way

noun
1.
The privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else.
2.
The right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another.
3.
The passage consisting of a path or strip of land over which someone has the legal right to pass.





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"Right of way" Quotes from Famous Books



... object coming straight at you," Mihul observed calmly, "is another aircar. In this lane it has the right of way. You do not have the right of ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... Public were extremely benevolent to permit so long an infringement of their right of way and other privileges. ...
— Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 15, 1891 • Various
... alone priority in the sense of time that gave him right of way over his contemporaries; he was the most distinguished representative of poetic philosophy of his generation. If the phrases of Lamartine seem richer, if his flight is more majestic, De Vigny's range is surer and more powerful. While the philosophy of the ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... bearing goods to the King of Bavaria; still, it took all the short winter's day and the long winter's night and half another day to go over ground that the mail-trains cover in a forenoon. It passed great armoured Kuffstein standing across the beautiful and solemn gorge, denying the right of way to all the foes of Austria. It passed twelve hours later, after lying by in out-of-the-way stations, pretty Rosenheim, that marks the border of Bavaria. And here the Nuernberg stove, with August inside it, was lifted out heedfully and set under a covered way. When it was ...
— Famous Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... 1764 at Warwick a legal battle was fought as to a right of way through the New Hall Park, the path in dispute being the site ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell


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