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road allowance 
1 a strip of land between surveyed concessions, ranges, sections, etc., retained by the municipality for the construction of a road.
See also: right-of-way
- 1822 The whole country is divided into townships containing 36 sections of one mile square, or 640 acres in each section, together with road allowance of . . . 116 feet in width between all townships and sections.
- 1822 [The allowance for the front road was generally 60 feet and for the other concession roads 40 feet.]
- 1844 A bill was introduced . . . entitled "An act to close up the Road Allowance between Lots Nos. 42 and 43 . . . in the township of Cayuga. . . ."
- 1929 (1930) There were, of course the road allowances, but these had been laid out geometrically in straight lines that took no account of hills and swamps.
- 1965 In rare cases . . . the trail has been routed along unused, overgrown, road allowances. . . .
2 See quote.
- 1958 . . . they were in the habit of assuming that the beautifully kept property was crown land, and they camped, and roamed far inland from the legal road allowance, as it is called, along the shore. . . .
- 1822 The whole country is divided into townships containing 36 sections of one mile square, or 640 acres in each section, together with road allowance of . . . 116 feet in width between all townships and sections.