Adjoining
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The word in its etymological sense, means touching or contiguous, as distinguished from lying near or adjacent.
In re Ward, 52 N. Y. 397; Miller v. Mann, 55 Vt 479; Akers v. Canal Co., 43 N. J. L. 110.
It is held that a yard may be separated by a street and yet adjoin; Com. v. Curley, 101 Mass. 25. Towns touching at corners adjoin; Holmes v. Carley, 31 N. Y. 289. The words "along" and "adjoining" are used as synonymous terms and as used in a statute imply contiguity, contact; Walton v. Ry. Co., 67 Mo. 58.