Adjacent
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
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.