Right of way and right-of-way are two distinct legal concepts which are often confused with each other due to the similarity in spelling but are pronounced the same. When the three words are separated by spaces, Right of way means the designation of who has the priority right of passage (movement) over another person or vehicle when two transportation paths intersect, such as an street intersection, or in the case of ships, intersection of shipping lanes.

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

• Right-of-way (property access), spelled with hyphens between each word to combine them as a single word, used chiefly in American usage, is an easement or grant to use or access a piece of property, in order to construct transportation facilities or other public facilities
• Right of way (shipping), set of sailing rules on water paths regarding priority and signaling
• Right of way, priority of attacking in fencing

• Right of Way (album), a 2003 album by Ferry Corsten
• Right of Way (film), a 1983 television film drama
• The Right of Way (1915 film), a lost silent film
• The Right of Way (1920 film), an American film starring Bert Lytell
• The Right of Way (1931 film), an American film starring Conrad Nagel and Loretta Young

• Visual flight rules
• Rights of way in England and Wales
• Rights of way in Scotland
• National broadband plan

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