Adjoining-

' Touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near or adjacent; in contact with.s In popular use seems to have no fixed meaning. Frequently expresses nearness. ^ What is " adjacent " may be separated by the intervention of a third object. What is "adjoining " must touch in some part. What is "contiguous," strictly speaking, should touch along one side.° Towns contiguous at their corners are adjoining. i" The whole yard of a house of correction, though divided by a street, from which it is fenced off, is adjoining or appurtenant to the house.''

V Compare Abut; Adjacent; Appertain. ' Watson V. Sutherland, 5 Wall. 79 (1866). 2 Electro-Magnetic Mining, &c. Co. v. Van Auken, 9 Col. 207 (1886); Gray v. Truby, 6 id. 278 (1883); Gen. Ldws Coi: 630, § 7.

8 L. adjacere, to lie near. * Municipality No. Two, 7 La. An. 79 (1852), Eustis, C. J.

See Continental Improv.

Co. v. Phelps, 47 Mich. 899 (188«). s United States v. Denver, &o.

E. Co. 3i F. E. 886, 889 (1887), Hallett, J. 'United States u Chaplin, 31 F. E. 890, 896 (1887), Deady, J. ^ F. adjoinder: L. ad-jungere, to join to. e Be Ward, 52 N. Y. 397 (1873); MUler v. Mann, 55 Vt. 479 (1882); Akers v. United E. Co., 43 N. J. L. 110 (1881). "Peverelly v. People, 3 Park. Cr. E. 69, 73 (1855); Crabbej Syn. ADJOUIlTJ'.i To put off, or defer to another day specified; also, to suspend for a time, to defer, delay. 2 Eeferring to a sale or a judicial proceeding, may include fixing the time to which the postponement is made.^ Adjournment. Putting off untU another time and place.' A continuation of a previous term of court.* A continuance of a session from one day to another.

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See Vacation.