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- Title
USE INTERRUPTED: THE COMPLICATED EVOLUTION OF UTAH'S HIGHWAY DEDICATION DOCTRINE.
- Authors
Alger, Clay
- Abstract
The article explores the evolution of the highway dedication doctrine in Utah known as the Dedication Statute. It says that the state's statutory law has recognized the public's right to acquire highways through long-term continuous use since before statehood. In addition, the said Dedication Statute mandates that a highway is dedicated and abandoned to the use of the public when it has been continuously used as a public thoroughfare for a period of ten years. In conclusion, it stresses that the state's dedication doctrine has evolved from a doctrine based on the dedication principals of intent and acceptance to a doctrine based on the prescription principals of adverse use.
- Subjects
UTAH; UNITED States; STATUTES; UTAH state politics &; government; HIGHWAY law; STATUTORY interpretation; RIGHT of way on roads; PUBLIC servitudes; PUBLIC interest
- Publication
Utah Law Review, 2008, Vol 2008, Issue 4, p1613
- ISSN
0042-1448
- Publication type
Article