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To reach; to touch. In old law, the ends were said to abut, the sides to adjoin. Cro. Jac. 184. To take a new direction; as where a bounding line changes its course. Spelman, voc. "Abuttare." In the modern law, to bound upon. 2 Chit. PI. 660. ABUTTALS (Fr.) The buttings or boundings of lands, showing to what other lands, highways, or places they belong or are abutting. Termes de la Ley.

To reach, to touch. In old law, the ends were said to abut, the sides to adjoin. Cro. Jac. 184. Gloss. Abuttare. In the modern law, to bound upon. 2 Chit. Pl. 660. In Hughes v. R. Co., 130 N. Y. 14, 28 N. E. 765, an abutting lot was defined as a lot bounded on the side of a public street in the bed or soil of which the owner of the lot has no title, estate, interest, or private right except such as are incident to a lot so situated. And see Abendroth v. R. Co., 122 N. Y. 1, 25 N. E. 496, 11 L. R. A. 634, 19 Am. St. Rep. 461. Though the usual meaning of the word is that the things spoken of do actually adjoin, "bounding and abutting" have no such inflexible meaning as to require lots assessed or improved actually to touch the improvement; Cohen v. Cleveland, 43 Ohio St. 190, 1 N. E. 589; 1 Ex. D. 336; contra, Holt v. City Council, 127 Mass. 408. Bounding or abutting on a street will include the soil of a private road opening into the street; 7 Q. B. 183. Where a strip of ground from one side of a street is appropriated for the purpose of widening such street, the lots fronting on the opposite sides of the street at the part widened will be deemed to abut on the improvement, though the street intervenes between the abutting lots and the strip appropriated; Cincinnati v. Batsche, 52 Ohio St. 324, 40 N. E. 21.

To reach, to touch. In old law, the ends were said to abut, the sides to adjoin. Cro. Jae. 184,

To touch or meet. Compare Adjoining. Abutment. The part of a bridge which touches the land. See Bridge. Abuttal. The point at which tracts of land meet; the butting or bounding of lands. Abutting. Usually, although not necessarily, imports "in contact" with.* Properties abut upon a street; and their owners are abutting owners. See further Street. AC. See Ad.

[L. Lat. abuttare; from Fr. abutter, abouter, to limit or bound, from bout, an end or limit, butt or mark.] To thrust forth the end, (finem exerere;) to meet; to come up to a mark (scopum appetere;) to bound end ways; to terminate. Spelman, voc. Abuttare. Called by Spelman a feudal term; (vox feodalis.) To come to an end, as a boundary does when it takes a new direction.

In modern law. To come up to, touch, meet, lie, or border upon. A close is sometimes described in pleading as abutting on the east, on a certain close, &c.; on the west, on a certain field, &c.; on the north, &c.; and on the south, &c. 2 Chitt. Pl. 660—662.