Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    (From a but, q. v.) Commonly defined "the buttings and boundings of lands, east, west, north, and south, showing on what other lands, highways or places they abut or are limited and bounded." Cowell ; Toml.