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Right-of-way or right of way may refer to:

In geography:

• A situation in which although a parcel of land has a specific private owner, some other party or the public at large has a legal right to traverse that land in some specified manner. The term likewise refers to the land subject to such a right. An easement is an example.
  • Rights of way in the United Kingdom , footpaths, bridleways, byways and roads where such a right exists
  • Right-of-way (transportation), a strip of land granted for a rail line, highway, or other transportation facility
• A public right-of-way a right of way which permits the public to travel over it, such as a street, road, sidewalk, or footpath.

In transportation:

• Traffic: Priority/right of way, the concept whereby one road user has the right of use of a section of road to the exclusion of another road user with a competing claim
• International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: Section II (for vessels in sight of one another), for ships
• Visual flight rules, for aircraft

Other:

• In fencing, priority granted to the first person to properly execute an attack
• Right of Way (album), a musical album by Ferry Corsten

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