[f. ABUT v. (in sense 2) + -AL 2.] Abutment; pl. the extremities or bounds of land; the parts in which it abuts upon neighboring lands.
1630. Bacon, Maxims Com. Law, xxv. 89. The land is set forth by bounds and abuttals.
1780. Marsham, in Phil. Trans., LXXI. 451, note. I have the deed between my ancestor and the Copyhold Tenants of his Manor … and the abuttal is clear.
1809. Tomlins, Law Dict., s.v. The boundaries and abuttals of corporation and church land … are preserved by an annual procession.
1876. Gwilt, Abuttals: the buttings or boundings of land.
