Adjacent

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.*