NOUN
- the passage consisting of a path or strip of land over which someone has the legal right to pass
- the right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another
- the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else
How To Use right of way In A Sentence
- On the road, flashing red or amber lights means traffic from all directions has right of way.
- The boats averaged four to six miles an hour, and had right of way over cargo boats on the canal.
- Even if the area is mapped as access land, you will not be able to walk within 20m of a dwelling, or in gardens or courtyards within the curtilage of a property, unless a right of way already exists.
- However, stacks of concrete ties and welded rail by the right of way indicated extensive upgrading.
- At one point, we wait for 10 minutes to cross a road, conceding right of way to five aircraft as they taxi and take off just metres away.
- Whose right of way is it?
- The spine incorporates Main and Fox streets, where pedestrians treading on the colourful paved streets have right of way.
- I did not have the energy to engage in an argument or a heated debate about who had the right of way and who was wrong.
- The auctioneers expressed satisfaction with the price obtained given the fact that the land was accessed via a lengthy right of way.
- It is an offence for a landowner to obstruct a public right of way, and the placing of a new stile, gate or fence can amount to an obstruction, unless it is a replacement of what previously existed.
