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street
n. a roadway in an urban area, owned and maintained by the municipality for public use. A private road cannot be a street.
STREET. A road in a village or city. In common parlance the word street is
equivalent to highway. 4 Serg. & Rawle, 108.
2. A permission to the public for the space of eight, or even of six
years, to use a street without bar or impediment, is evidence from which a
dedication to the public maybe inferred. 11 East, R. 376; See 2 N. Hamp.
513; 4 B. & A. 447; 3 East, R. 294; 1 Law Intell. 134; 2 Smith's Lead. Cas.
94, n.; 2 Pick. R. 162; 2 Verm. R. 480; 5 Taunt. R. 125; S. C. 1 E. C. L. R.
34; 4 Camp. R. 169; 1 Camp. R. 260: 7 B. & C. 257; S. C. 14 E. C. L. R. 39;
5 B & Ald. 454; S. C. 7 E. C. L. R. 159; 1 Blackf. 44; 2 Wend. 472; 8 Wend.
85; 11 Wend. 486; 6 Pet. 431; 1 Paige, 510; and the article Dedication.