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Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
Motor vehicles adapted
Motor vehicles adapted, the definition of motor vehicle in item 34 reveals that the striking ingredient thereof is that it should have been 'adapted or the use upon roads.' Merely because the areas on which such heavy movers traverse might sometimes include roads also is not enough to hold that they were adapted for use upon roads. Such use of the heavy mover on the road may only be ancillary or incidental to the main use of it. Emphasis in the definition must be on the words 'use upon road' as those words would denote the principal or dominant use and not where it may move incidentally, Goodyear India Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC 2038 (2040): (1997) 5 SCC 752. [Central Excise and Salt Act (1 of 1944) Schedule I, item 34 (3A)]...
Crossroad
A road that crosses another an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road...
By turning
An obscure road a way turning from the main road...
Highway
A road or way open to the use of the public especially a paved main road or thoroughfare between towns in the latter sense it contrasts with local street as on the highways and byways...
main road
A major road for any form of motor transport...
Highroad
A highway a much traveled or main road...
layby
A paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily...
Mainly
Mainly, 'mainly' should be interpreted as 'solely'. 'Solely' means 'exclusively' while 'mainly' means 'substantially', but not in any case 'wholly' or 'solely'. Himachal Road Transport Corporation v. M/s. Bhanno Mull, AIR 1992 HP 37 (45). [Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, (23 of 1971), s. 2(d)(i)]The word 'mainly', according to the ordinary plain meaning, means substantially, principally, chiefly, as far as practicable' or so far as possible, Swaran Lata v. Union of India, (1979) 3 SCC 165 (178): (1979) 2 SCR 953....
Byway
A secluded private or obscure way a path or road aside from the main one...
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