ABBUTTALS, signify the buttings or boundings of land towards any point. Limits were anciently distinguished by artificial hillocks, which were called boten-
tines, and hence butting. In a description of the site of land, the sides on the breadth are more properly adjacentes, and those terminating the length are abbuttantes; which, in old surveys, were sometimes expressed by capitare, to head; whence abbuttals are now called head lands.