FRONT. Ordinarily, as applied to a lot or tract of land, that part of it which abuts on, or gives access from, it to a highway whether natural or artificial. But some times as in a covenant to keep up sidewalks, the front of a corner lot may mean the side ; City of Des Moines v. Dorr, 31 Ia. 89.
When the contract of sale calls for a store fifty-six feet front and rear and the deed describes the lot as nineteen feet wide, there being visible monuments,—side walls,—the latter control, and front and rear will be taken as the depth of the lot, though the natural meaning would be the width; Mc Whorter v. McMahan, 10 Paige (N. Y.) 386.
A covenant not to open or put out a door to the front of the street means a door giv ing access to the street and not close upon it, and the covenant is broken if the door be eight feet back of the actual front ; Dowl. & Ry. 556, 563.
The words front to the river (in French and Spanish deeds, face au fleuve, or frente al rio), used in describing part of a planta tion, prima facie designate a riparian es tate, unless, taken in such sense, they have an incongruous or absurd result; Morgan v.
Livingston, 6 Mart. 0. S. (La.) 19, 224, in which the meaning of this expression was learnedly and elaborately defined. It is oth erwise as to a sale of part of a tract when at the time of sale the vendor owned another part between that sold and the river; in the last case the words are descriptive of the situation of the property ; Cambre v. Kohn, 8 Mart. N. S. (La.) 572.
And the words front of the levee (fronte d la levee) when there was land outside of the levee susceptible of ownership does not sig nify a boundary on the river ; Livingston v. Heerman, 9 Mart. 0. S. (La.) 656, 719.