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A right of way (also right-of-way) is a type of easement granted, purchased, or reserved over land for transportation purposes, such as footpaths, highways, railways, canals, as well as for infrastructure equipment such electrical transmission, oil, and gas pipe lines, to enable access to another property or properties.[1] In the case of an easement, it may revert to its original owners if the facility is abandoned. A right of way for access may be restricted to a single grantee.
The term "right of way" is also used to denote the land itself, such as the strips of land along a railroad track on which railroad companies own a right of way easement, or a trail or path.
- ^ Henry Campbell Black: Right-of-way. In: A law dictionary containing definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern: and including the principal terms of international, constitutional, ecclesiastical, and commercial law, and medical jurisprudence, with a collection of legal maxims ... (West Publishing Co., 1910), pg. 1040.
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