HIGH WAY, a free passage for the king's subjects; on which account it is called the king's high-way, though the freehold of the soil belong to the owner of the land. Those ways that lead from one town to another, and such as are drift or cart ways, and are for all travellers in great roads, or that communicate with them, are high-ways only; and as to their reparation, are under the care of surveyors.