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a notice and sell them. It is a very simple process, not like sell- 

 ing- property for taxes, or impounding- beasts. 



Towns are not necessarily obliged to grade their roads the 

 whole width of their location, nor to make them ahsoluiely safe. 

 Where the country is sparsely populated, such a labor might cost 

 the entire valuation of the town. Towns are only compelled to 

 make and keep in repair a way of reasonable width, considering 

 the kind and amount of travel, where people can pass and repass 

 with reasonable safety, with their horses, teams, carts, carriages, 

 &c., at all seasons of the year. If any obstructions exist outside 

 of such travelled path, and within the limits of the road, which 

 neither the town in making the road, nor nature, placed there, 

 and a person necessarily travelling out of such beaten track, is 

 thereby injured, he being in the exercise of ordinary care, and no 

 other cause contributing to produce the injury, may recover of 

 the town having notice ; or he may recover of the individual by 

 whose fault the defect existed, as of a tort-feasor. If the traveller, 

 being out of the usual path, comes in collision with natural obsta- 

 cles, or those necessarily caused by the town in making or repair- 

 ing the way, he is out of the travelled part at his own risk. Of 

 course obstructions placed in the travelled path, except as a warn- 

 ing against defects, or to prevent the spread of contagious 

 sickness and the like, would create liability. 



" Laio of the Boad." 



This relates to the rights and duties of travellers upon the road, 

 and is a subject in which no class are more interested than 

 farmers. There are statutes which substantially cover this matter. 

 "Where persons travelling with a team are approaching to meet 

 on a way, they are seasonably to turn to the right of the middle of 

 the travelled part of it, so far that they can pass each other with- 

 out interference. When it is not safe or is difBcult on account of 

 weight of load to do so, a person about to be met or overtaken, if 

 requested, is to stop a reasonable time at a convenient place to 

 enable the other to pass." The rule in New Brunswick, and per- 

 haps in other British Provinces, is the opposite of this, (i. e. to 

 turn to the left.) If you digress from one statute rule and injury 

 results from that digression, you cannot recover damages, nor can 

 can you excuse yourself for injuries inflicted upon others, caused 

 by a departure from this injunction. 



"When a person with a team is stationary or travelling slowly 



