road

A highway; an open way or public passage; a line of travel or communication extending from one town or place to another; a strip of land appropriated and used for purposes of travel and communication between different places.

See also highway

In maritime law, an open passage of the sea that receives its denomination commonly from some part adjacent, which, though it lie out at sea, yet, in respect of the situation of the land adjacent, and the depth and wideness of the place, is a safe place for the common riding or anchoring of ships. Law of the road. Custom or practice which has become crystallized into accepted system of rules regulating travel on highways. Short v. Robinson, 280 Ky. 707,134 S.W.2d 594, 596.

It relates to safety of travel, and is adjustment of rights of travelers using highway at same time. For example, "law of the road" refers to the rule which requires that vehicles meeting shall keep to the right of the middle of the highway.

See also right of way.

@ public road

A highway; a road or way established and adopted (or accepted as a dedication) by the proper authorities for the use of the general public, and over which every person has a right to pass and to use it for all purposes of travel or transportation to which it is adapted and devoted. The proper test in determining whether road is a "public" or "private road" is use to which such roadway is put, and fact that road has been constructed at public expense is not conclusive. Kitchens v. Duffield, 83 Ohio App. 41, 76 N.E.2d 101, 105, 38 O.O. 142

@ road districts

Public or quasi municipal corporations organized or authorized by statutory authority in many of the states for the special purpose of establishing, maintaining, and caring for public roads and highways within their limits, sometimes invested with powers of local taxation, and generally having elective officers styled "overseers" or "commissioners" of roads

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