WAY (AS. wry, Goth. wigs, 011G. wee, Ger. 'Weg, way; connected with Lat. via, road, Gk. 6xos, ochos, carriage, LW). weza, track of a cart, Skt. saps, road, from rah, to carry, convey). In law, an easement or right in a person to pass over the land of another. The term is also em ployed to denote a path o• road over which a right of way may be exercised. the right of way can be used only by one person, or a limited number of individuals, it is considered private. Where it may he used by all persons in common it is public. Twenty years' open and adverse exercise of a right of way makes it a permanent easement by prescription. A 'way by necessity' arises where a person sells to another a portion of his land, to which there is no road or way leading to a public highway, or which is so located as to cut off access from the remainder of the vendor's land to the highway. The person whose land is thus cut off from access to a public highway may pass over the vendor's or pur chaser's land, as the case may be, by the most convenient and direct route to the nearest high way, having due regard for the best interests of the person over whose he passes. A way
may consist merely of the right to pass Over a narrow path on foot, or on horseback. or may extend to the use of vehicles of any The latter class of ways is the most common in the United States. A private way may be dedi cated to the public, but a nu•re iieense to the public to pass over a way will not destroy its private character. See EASEMENT.
WAY, Alan u it S. ( 1847—) . An English translator, born at Dorking. lle was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and at Queen's Col lege, Melbourne (Australia), where he was after wards fellow. In 1870-76 he was a lecturer at Queen's College, Taunton, in 1876-8I of Kingswood Selma', Bath, and from 1AS2 to 1592 head master of Wesley College• „Nleibourne. Ile published verse translations of the Odyssey (1880), of the Iliad (1886-89). of Euripides (1S91-98), and of the Epodes of lborace (1S9S). They are among the most skillful examples of translation from the classics to be found in English. He also published in 1901 Apollo/rims lehodius' Tale of the Jrgonauts and Letters of Saint Paul to Seren Churches and Three Friends.