ABBUTALS, signify the buttings or boundings of land towards any point. Limits were anciently distinguished by artificial hillocks, which were called buttinges; 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 abbutantes; which, in old surveys, were sometimes expressed by capitare, to head, whence abbutals are now called head lands.