abutter

One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate.

Noun

  1. One who, or that which, abuts, specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate.
    • the abutters on a street or a river
    • But said corporation shall not acquire title to any land, nor enter upon any street, until all damages to the owners of land and abutters on any part of a street occupied, or to be occupied, by its structure have been...
    • 2015 April 23, James Kinsella writing in The Enterprise, Heritage Hearing Boils Over Residents continually brought up the aerial park, which had been quickly approved by the committee a year earlier after Heritage...

Origin

Etymology tree English abut Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English abutter From abut + -er.

Forms

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