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Area [Lat., a threshing-floor], (1) an enclosed yard or open place connected with a house; (2) a district for particular purposes, as a school board area, a parliamentary electoral area, a local government district (see Part viii of the Public Health Act, 1875), a Poor Law Union of parishes, as to which, see UNION; (3) Metaphor, the region of discussion; (4) In the London Building Act, 1930, s. 5, contains this definition: 'area' in relation to a building means the superficies of a horizontal section thereof made at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such portions of the party walls as belong to the building.

'Area' means the area (including all the buildings, structures or other properties comprises therein) specified in the Schedule. [Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya, (33 of 1993), s. 2(a)]

An area simpliciter is certainly not a route. Its potentiality to become a route would not make it a route. A route is an area plus something more, C.P. Sikh Regular Moter Service v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1974 SC 1905 (1907). [Motor Vehicles Act, (4 of 1939), s. 68(c)]

By area is meant the road, the physical tract, over which the motor vehicles ply without references to any notional line of travel, D. Papiah v. Mysore State Transport Tribunal, AIR 1976 SC 1731 (1733). [Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, s. 45(1)