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Watch and ward
ward [custodia, Lat.] is chiefly applied to the daytime, in order to apprehend rioters and robbers on the highways. Watch [fr. watcht, or wacta, Teut.] is applicable to the night only, and begins at the time when
Assimulare
Assimulare, to connect highways, Leg. Hen. I. c. 8.
Arrest
also with regard to a constable in respect of certain minor offences on the highway [s. 78, (English) Highways Act; s. 28, (English) Town Police Clauses Act; s. 74(2), (English) Public Health Act, 1925 (Geo. 5, c.
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Abbuttals, or Abuttals
Wedg.], the buttings or boundings of any land, east, west, north, or south, declaring on what other lands, highways or other places it does abbut. The sides of the land are properly said to be adjoining to,
Highway
main road or thoroughfare between towns in the latter sense it contrasts with local street as on the highways and byways
Paviage
A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways
Overseer
of a mill specifically one or certain public officers as an overseer of the poor an overseer of highways
purpresture
of land subject to the rights of others : an encroachment upon or enclosure of real property (as highways, sidewalks, or harbors) subject to common or public rights
Strator, or Stretward
Strator, or Stretward, a surveyor of the highways, Dugd. Mon., tom. 2, p. 187.
four lane
Having two lanes for traffic in each direction of paved highways
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