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Definition :

Public street, means any street, road square, court, alley, passage or riding path over which the public have a right of way whether a thoroughfare or not and includes (a) the roadway over any public bridge or causeway; (b) the foot-way attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway; and (c) the drains attached to any such street, public bridge or causeway and the land, whether covered or not by any pavement, veranda, or other structure, which lies on either side of the roadway up to the boundaries of the adjacent property, whether that property is private property or property belonging to the government. [Madras City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919, s. 2(20)]

Public street, shall mean any street--(i) heretofore levelled, pared, mettaled, channeled sweered or repaired out of municipal or other public fund; unless before such work was carried out, there was an agreement with the proprietor that the street should not thereby become a public street, or unless such work was done without the implied or express consent of the proprietor, Municipal Committee, Karnal v. Nirmala Devi, AIR 1996 SC 892. [See Haryana Municipalities Act (24 of 1973), s. 181(2), 227]

The word 'public street' covers pavements, vestibules, drains, open spaces in front of shops accessible to public, Banarsidas v. Ramkrishna, AIR 1995 M.P. 147; Gobind Pershad v. New Delhi Municipal Committee, AIR 1993 SC 2313.