ABUTTER

abutter ([schwa]-b[schwa]t-[schwa]r). 1. The owner of adjoining land; one whose property abuts another’s. [Cases: Adjoining Landowners 1. C.J.S. Adjoining Landowners §§ 2, 6–8, 39.] “The major right of [an abutter] is that of access to his property — a right of reasonable ingress and egress. He is entitled to compensation for any substantial impairment of […]