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Abut

To reach, to touch. In old law, the ends were said to abut, the sides to adjoin, Cro. Jac. 184. And see Lawrence v. Killam, 11 Kan. 499, 511; Springfield v. Green, 120 111. 269, 11 N. E. 261

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)