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  2. Right of way - Wikipedia

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    Right of way drawing of U.S. Route 25E for widening project, 1981 Right of way highway marker in Athens, Georgia Julington-Durbin Peninsula power line right of way. A right of way (also right-of-way) is a transportation corridor along which people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.

  3. Bypass (road) - Wikipedia

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    A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, to improve road safety and as replacement for obsolete roads that are no longer in use as a result of devastating natural disasters ...

  4. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    via executoria: executorial way Non-judicial foreclosure under a power of sale clause in a mortgage; more broadly, any non-judicial remedy empowered under a contractual clause or some other instrument via iure: way of law Using the courts and the justice system (opposite of self-help) vinculum iuris: the chain of the law

  5. Controlled-access highway - Wikipedia

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    This means two things: first, adjoining property owners do not have a legal right of access, [78] meaning all existing driveways must be removed and access to adjacent private lands must be blocked with fences or walls; instead, frontage roads provide access to properties adjacent to a freeway in many places.

  6. Operation of law - Wikipedia

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    Rights or liabilities created by operation of law can also be created involuntarily, because a contingency occurs for which a party has failed to plan (e.g. failure to write a will); or because a specific condition exists for a set period of time (e.g. adverse possession of property or creation of an easement; failure of a court to rule on a ...

  7. Spur route - Wikipedia

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    A subsidiary route either passing through a city or bypassing it and then reconnecting to a major highway would receive an even first digit, and be considered a loop rather than a spur. For example, in the case of Interstate 5 , Interstate 105 is a spur route ending at Los Angeles International Airport , whereas Interstate 405 begins and ends ...

  8. International telecommunications routes - Wikipedia

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    This is an easy way of doing business, but it does mean that the other carriers in the market have partial visibility of what each other is doing. Minutes exchanges allow carriers to buy and sell termination anonymously at a contracted price and quality. The anonymity is important, as minutes exchanges are used daily by PTT's and Tier One ...

  9. Right of conquest - Wikipedia

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    The right of conquest was historically a right of ownership to land after immediate possession via force of arms. It was recognized as a principle of international law that gradually deteriorated in significance until its proscription in the aftermath of World War II following the concept of crimes against peace introduced in the Nuremberg Principles.