Adjacent

having a "continuous surface connection" between the wetland and its neighboring creek, "ante," at 742.

To lie near; close or contiguous; in the neighborhood or vicinity of. 239 111. 209. Two of three lots of land might be described as adjacent to the first, while only the second could be said to be adjoining. 1 Cooke (Tenn.) 128.

Next to, or near, neighboring. 29 Alb. L. J. 24. Two of three lots of land might be described as adjacent to the first, while only the second could be said to be adjoining; 1 Cooke 128; Municipality No. 2, For Opening Rofflgnac St., 7 La. Ann. 76; Continental Imp. Co. v. Phelps, 47 Mich. 299, 11 N. W. 167. Land is adjacent to the line of a railroad, where by reason of its proximity thereto it is directly and materially benefitted by the construction thereof; U. S. v. Chaplin, 31 Fed. S90. Where a statute authorized the taking of material for building a railroad from public lands "adjacent" to the line thereof, what is adjacent land must depend on the circumstances of the particular case; where the adjacent ends and the non-adjacent begins may be difficult to determine. It is a word of flexible meaning, depending upon context and subject matter. U. S. v. R. Co., 31 Fed. 886.

Near to; in the neighborhood

Lying near or close to; contiguous, The difference between adjacent and adjoining seems to be that the forwhile adjoining imports that they so joined or united to each other that no jird object intervenes.

3 Near, but not touching. Applied to lots, is synonymous with " contiguous." In another relation it might have a more extended meaning.* See Adjoining; Contiguous; Vicinity. Certain acts of Congress authorized the defendant to take from public lands " adjacent " to its road materials necessary for the construction and repair of its railway. Held^ that the reference was to such materials as could be conveniently reached by ordinary transportation by wagons, and that the privilege did not include the right to transport timber to distant parts of the road.» Whei*eth6 "adjacent" ends and the non-adjacent begins may be difitlcult to determine. On the theory that the material is taken on account of the benefit resulting to the land from the construction of the road, the term ought not to be construed to include any land save such as by its proximity to the line of the road is directly and materially benefited by its construction.*

[Lat. adjacens, from adjaeere, to lie to, at, or upon.] Lying near to, or in the neighborhood of. 1 Cooke's R. 128. 4 Peters' Cond.Rep. U. S. 96. This word formerly signified adjoining, as its etymology indicates, but has not now that meaning. Id. ibid. See Abuttals.