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Right of way   /raɪt əv weɪ/   Listen
Right of way

noun
1.
The privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else.
2.
The right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another.
3.
The passage consisting of a path or strip of land over which someone has the legal right to pass.





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"Right of way" Quotes from Famous Books



... alone priority in the sense of time that gave him right of way over his contemporaries; he was the most distinguished representative of poetic philosophy of his generation. If the phrases of Lamartine seem richer, if his flight is more majestic, De Vigny's range is surer and more powerful. While the philosophy ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... from the start. They often say I'm a good mixer, but it took no talent to get next to that boy. I woke up the first night thinking I knew what old silly would do her darndest to adopt him if ever his poor pa and ma was to get buttered over the right of way in ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... the A. N. R.," she panted. "By rights we should have arrived last night, but day-before-yesterday's train had the right of way and we was held up down to Battle Run. I tell you, the rails of that line are like the waves of the sea! I was that sea-sick I thought never to eat mortal food again—but it's coming back; my appetite I mean. ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner
... patrolman, he had walked beat out of the Town Hall Police Station, a short distance away. After his promotion to the detective force, he remained here because of the convenient location. The elevated railroad had its right of way directly back of his home, and the Addison Street station was only around the corner. He could quickly get to the Detective Bureau or almost any part of ...
— The Sheridan Road Mystery • Paul Thorne
... Suppose a man owned one hundred acres of land and gave you the right of way through it from one public road to another,—that would leave him many acres for his own use on which you have no right to trespass. I think we treat Jesus so. We are willing that he should have the right of way through our hearts, but we forget that every acre must be the King's property. ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black


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