Usage examples (5)

• At first sight pavage may not appear an exact analogy to the turnpike system, which relied on voluntary private investment.
• My point in mentioning the pavage was precisely that it was one of the substitutes for what are now the functions of local government.
• The point therefore stands that the pavage is one of those elements of early transport history that strongly suggests top-down directed state provision is not the only...
• For three days, the three busiest of the year, when we might do well out of tolls on carts and pack-horses and man-loads passing through the town to reach the fair, we must...