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A major road for any form of motor transport...
Highways
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...
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....
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...
Trunk Roads Act, 1936
Trunk Roads Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 5), provides that the Minister of Transport shall be the highway authority for the principal roads in Great Britain which constitute the national system of routes for through traffic. Such roads which become Trunk Roads are set out in the Schedule.By s. 13 road means a highway and includes any part of a highway and any prepared road and any bridge over which a highway passes or a proposed road is intended to pass, and trunk road shall be construed accordingly...
Highroad
A highway a much traveled or main road...
layby
A paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily...
Road
Road, (1) a way or passage (see HIGHWAYS; WAY); (2) a secure place for the anchoring of vessels.Road, includes--(i) all lands appurtenant thereto,(ii) all approach roads, bridges, flyovers, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways and other structures or, over, along or across such roads, and(iii) all fences, trees, posts and boundary, two hundred -- metre and kilometre stones of such road,but does not include a National Highway. [Rajasthan Road Development Act, 2002, s. 2(d)]...
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