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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
To reach; to touch. In old law, the ends were said to abut, the sides to adjoin.
Cro. Jac. 184.
To take a new direction; as where a bounding line changes its course. Spelman, voc. "Abuttare." In the modern law, to bound upon.
2 Chit. PI. 660.
ABUTTALS (Fr.) The buttings or boundings of lands, showing to what other lands, highways, or places they belong or are abutting. Termes de la Ley.