Abut

[L. Lat. abuttare; from Fr. abutter, abouter, to limit or bound, from bout, an end or limit, butt or mark.] To thrust forth the end, (finem exerere;) to meet; to come up to a mark (scopum appetere;) to bound end ways; to terminate. Spelman, voc.

Abuttare.

Called by Spelman a feudal term; (vox feodalis.) To come to an end, as a boundary does when it takes a new direction. In modern law. To come up to, touch, meet, lie, or border upon. A close is sometimes described in pleading as abutting on the east, on a certain close, &c.; on the west, on a certain field, &c.; on the north, &c.; and on the south, &c.

2 Chitt. Pl. 660—662.