this Act ; (31) "Private drain" means any drain which is not a Municipal drain as defined in this section ; (32) "Private street" means any street ... section of this Act; (46) "Street" means a public or private street; (47) "Street alignment" means the line dividing the land comprised in and forming
city. These private streets provide inner access from the public streets. As classified in Section 346 , a public street may be an arterial road ... public thoroughfare. The private roads supplement the system and take the communication facilities to inner areas. In this way, a private street has either
relate to or are connected with public streets, that the streets in Punjabi Bagh colony are only private street, and that since the said streets ... that section shall, declare such a street to be a public street and thereupon the street shall vest in the Corporation."
(39) SUB-SECTION
person to use a street as a
public street would be if the street is declared as a public street under Section ... user of a private land owned by private
persons once there is no illegality in user of the private land by private persons
divert any existing public street; and
(d) lay down and determine the position and
direction of a street or streets in any part ... land over which
the street is formed, but the street qua street and
that the property in the street that vested in a
Municipal council
street which is not a public street. The definition clauses show that the street may be a public street, may be a private street ... street" and "street." The Legislature thus intended that an open space may be one which may, be a public street, private street
over the street without written permission of the Commissioner irrespective of the fact whether the street is a public street or a private street ... sections is "street" and not "public street." The Corporation Act defines "public street" as any street over which
public street' is defined as under:
(31) "public street" means any street, road,
square, court, alley, passage or riding-path over
which ... about on an existing public
or private street, layout and make a street or streets
or road or roads giving access to the site
street" means any street heretofore
levelled, paved, metalled, channelled, sewered or
repaired by the corporation and any street which
becomes a public street under ... public street, and thereupon the same shall become a
public street:
(2) Provided that no such street shall become a public
street if, within
private respondents but it was being used by the
private respondents (writ petitioners) themselves as a private passage/private
street, carved out by them ... Section 2 (39) "private street"
means any street, which is not a public street and includes any passage
securing access
