Abutter

The owner of land abutting on a public street, in the bed of which the owner has no title or private right except such as are incident to a lot so situated. 122 N. Y. 1; 130 N. Y. 14. An abutter has two distinct kinds of rights in a highway, — those which he enjoys in common with all citizens, and those which arise from his ownership of contiguous property. 130 N. Y. 618. He may or may not own the fee in the street, and his rights of the second class vary according to this fact. 131 N. Y. 293. of action, used in those cases where it was necessarjr to allege a fictitious cause of action to give the court jurisdiction, and also the real cause in compliance with the statutes. It was first used in the king's bench, and was afterwards adopted by Lord C. J. North in addition to the clausum fregit writs of his court upon which writs of capias might issue. He balanced a while whether he should not use the words wee non instead of ac etiwnL See Burgess, Ins. 149-157; 3 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 288. AC ETIAM BiLLAE (Law Lat. and also to a bill). The initial words of a clause inserted in a writ of capias ad respondendum,. where bail is required, in order to express the true cause of action; the writ requiring the defendant "to answer the plaintiff of a plea of trespass, and also to a bill of tha plaintiff" against the defendant, for whatever the real cause of action may be. 3 Bl. Comm. 288; Id. Append. No. 3, § 3. See "Capias ad Respondendum." This clause is now dispensed with in the process of the English courts. St. 2 Wm. IV. c. 39. See "Bill." AC SI (Lat.) As if. Towns. PI. 23, 27. There words frequently occur in old English statutes. Lord Bacon expounds their meaning in the statute of uses: "The statute gives entry, not simpliciter, but with an ac si." Bac. Read. Uses, Works, iv. 195.

One whose property abuts, is contiguous or joins at a border or boundary, as where no other land, road or street intervenes.