里り道どう

noun

non-legal public road; statutory public road (sometimes physically lost)

A legal term for a type of public road under the former Road Act that may no longer exist on the ground but retains legal status. Often encountered in property registration or land boundary disputes.

See also: 法定外公共物

• 登とう記き簿ぼには里り道どうとして記き載さいされているが、現げん地ちには道みちらしい痕こん跡せきはなかった。

  It was recorded in the registry as a statutory public road, but there was no trace of a road on the site.

• 里り道どうの払はらい下さげを受うけて宅たく地ちに編へん入にゅうした。

  We acquired the statutory public road and incorporated it into the residential land.