Frontage

FRONTAGER. In English Law. A frontager is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term is generally used with reference to the liability of frontagers on streets to contribute towards the expense of paving, draining, or other works on the highway carried out by a local authority, in proportion to the frontage of their respective tenements. Public Health Act, 11 & 12 Viet. c. 6;3. There is no liability at common law binding a frontager on the sea to maintain a sea-wmll on his land; 1 Q. B. D. 225. The corresponding American term is abutter f'q. V.). See Assessment; Foreshobb.