public passage

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PUBLIC PASSAGE. This term is synonymous with public highway, with this 
difference; by the latter, is understood a right to pass over the land of 
another; by the former is meant the right of going over the water which is 
on another's land. Carth. 193; Hamm. N. P. 195. See Passage. 
    

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