highway

A free and public roadway, or street; one which every person has the right to use. In popular usage, refers to main public road connecting towns or cities. The entire width between boundaries of every publicly maintained way when any part is open to use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic. Kimes By and Through Kimes v. Herrin, 217 Mont. 330, 705 P.2d 108, 110.

In broader sense, refers to any main route on land, water, or in the air. The term "highway," as generally understood, does not have a restrictive or a static meaning, but it denotes ways laid out or constructed to accommodate modes of travel and other related purposes that change as customs change and as technology develops, and the term "highway," as it is generally understood, includes areas other than and beyond the boundaries of the paved surface of a roadway. Opinion of the Justices to the Senate, Mass., 352 N.E.2d 197, 201.

@ Commissioners of Highways

Public officers appointed in states, counties and municipalities to take charge of constructing, altering, repairing and vacating of highways within their respective jurisdictions. Common highway. A road to be used by the community at large for any purpose of transit or traffic

@ highway acts

@ highway laws

highway acts, or laws

The body or system of laws governing the laying out, construction, repair, and use of highways

@ highway crossing

A place where the track of a railroad crosses the line of a highway

@ highway-rate

In English law, a tax for the maintenance and repair of highways, chargeable upon the same property that is liable to the poorrate

@ highway tax

A tax for and applicable to the making and repair of highways

@ highway toll

See toll.

@ public highway

One under the control of and maintained by public authorities for use of the general public; including every public street, road or highway. Calif. Code Pub.Utilities, No. 3509

@ highwayman

A bandit; one who robs travelers upon the highway. Anderson v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., 77 CalApp. 641, 247 P. 507, 510.

See also hijacking

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