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Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
By way open to all traffic
By way open to all traffic, requires evidence of current vehicular use, that this section requires the combined pedestrian and equestrian use of the route to outweigh the vehicular use, but does not require that there should be both pedestrian and equestrian use, but that, although there was evidence of the requisite current use of the route, Buckland v. Secretary of State for the Environment and Transport and the Regions, (2000) 1 WLR 1449 (QB).By way open to all traffic, is a highway over which the public had a right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic, but which was used by the public mainly for the purposes for which footpaths and bridleways were so used, Masters v. Secretary of State for the Environment Transport and the Regions, (2000) 3 WLR 1894 (CA).Means a highway over which the public has right of way for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic, but which is used mainly for the purpose for which footpaths and bridle ways are so used, Halsbury's Laws of Englan...
Such income by way of dividends
Such income by way of dividends, the words 'such income by way of dividends' in s. 80M of Income Tax Act, is referable not only to the category of income included in the gross total income but also to the quantum of the income so included. On a plain grammatical construction, it is obvious that the words 'such income by way of dividends' must have reference to the income by way of dividends mentioned earlier and that would be income by way of dividends from a domestic company which is included in the gross total income, Disributors (Baroda) Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1585: (1986) 1 SCC 43: (1985) Supp 1 SCR 778....
ways and means
ways and means 1 : methods and resources for raising the necessary revenues for the expenses of a nation or state 2 often cap W&M : a legislative committee with jurisdiction over ways and means ...
In the way of his business as agent
In the way of his business as agent, the expression 'in the way of his business as agent' means that the property is entrusted to him in the ordinary course of his duty or habitual occupation or profession or trade.... The term agent in s. 409 is not restricted only to those persons who carry on the profession of agents, R.K. Dalmia v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1962 SC 1821: (1963) 1 SCR 253....
Way, Under
Way, Under, a ship is 'under way' within the meaning of the Sea Regulations, 1910, when she is not the anchor or made fast to the shore or ground (see The Palembang, 1929 P. 246)....
right of way
right of way ...
way of necessity
way of necessity :easement by implication at easement ...
Four way
Allowing passage in either of four directions as a four way cock or valve...
Four way stop
An intersection of two roads having stop signs at all four entry points The usual rule for such intersections requires that those entering the intersection yield the right of way to vehicles entering before them...
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