Abut

• To adjoin or share a common boundary, or share even a small portion of a boundary.
• To touch or border upon. A piece of land bordering on a street or an adjoining property is said to abut such street or property.
• To end one wall where it meets the face of another wall.
• To be next to or touch another property or body of water.
• Two properties that share a common boundary. For example, a home owner could have land that "abuts" a city park, which means the two properties border each other.
• Adjacent or contiguous to. For example, if a property is adjacent or next to another, it can be said to abut each other.
• To touch or contact as with the tarsal plates of the closed eyelids.
• In property law, when two parcels abut it means they are adjacent to each other and up against each others' borders. This often leads to disputes among neighbors.
• To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent; to project; to terminate; to be contiguous; to meet; To abut on