Definition of Adjacent

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

    Land separated by a distance of fifty-five feet is not adjacent. See Ann. Cas. 1913B, 167.

  • Adjacent
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Lying near or close to; contiguous. The difference between adjacent and adjoining seems to be that the former implies that the two objects are not widely separated, though they may not actually touch, while adjoining imports that they are so joined or united to each other that no third object intervenes. People v. Keechler, 194 111 235, 62 N. E. 525; Hanifen v. Armitage (C. Ct) 117 Fed. 845 ; McDonald v. Wilson, 59 Ind. 54; Wormley v Wright County, 108 Iowa, 232, 78 N. W. 824; Hen-nessy v. Douglas County, 99 Wis. 129, 74 N. W. 983; Yard v. Ocean Beach Ass'n, 49 N. J. Eq. 306, 24 Atl. 729; Henderson v. Long, 11 Fed. Cas. 1084; Yuba County v. Kate Hayes Min. Co., 141 Cal. 360, 74 Pac. 1049; United States v. St. Anthony R. Co., 192 U. S. 524, 24 Sup Ct. 333, 48 In Ed 548. But see Miller v. Cabell, 81 Ky. 184; In re Sadler, 142 Pa. 511, 21 Atl. 978.