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Definition of Footway
1. n. A passage for pedestrians only.
Definition of Footway
1. Noun. A passage for pedestrians only. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footway
1. a footpath [n -WAYS] - See also: footpath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Footway
Literary usage of Footway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"But the plaintiff and his predecessors ha I, also, from time immemorial, in
ploughing tin- field, ploughed up the footway when anil in such parts as they ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1900)
"In an action by an infant against a city to recover damages for an injury caused
by stepping into a hole in a sidewalk or footway, it is proper not to ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Ways, Including Highways, Turnpike Roads and Tolls by Humphry William Woolrych (1829)
"footway diverted. The mode of adjudging damages where a footway is diverted is
as follows. If it be diverted through the land belonging to the same person ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"78, no power is given to stop up any highway, bridleway, or footway, ... By that
statute no power was given to stop up an old footway without making a new ..."
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