Abut

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

Cro. Jac. 184. And see Lawrence v. Killam, 11 Kan. 499, 511; Springfield v. Green. 120 111. 269, 11 N. E. 261.

Property is described as "abutting" on a street, road, etc., when, it adjoins or is adjacent thereto, either in the sense of actually touching it or being practically contiguous to it, being separated by no more than a small and inconsiderable distance, but not when another lot, a street or any other such distance intervenes.

Richards v. Cincinnati, 31 Ohio St. 506; Springfield v. Green. 120 111. 269, 11 N. E. 261; Cohen v. Cleveland, 43 Ohio St. 190, 1 N. E. 589; Holt v. Somerville, 127 Mass. 408; Cincinnati v, Batsche, 52 Ohio St. 324, 40 N. E. 21, 27 L. R. A. 536; Code Iowa 1897, § 968.