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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Nearest or nighest, not in the sense of propinquity alone, as, for example, three persons on three chairs, one in the midst, those on each side of the middle one are equally near, each “next” to the middle one; but it signifies also order, or succession, or relation as well as propinquity.
27 L. J. Ch. 654. See 3 Q. B. 723; Couch v. Turnpike Co., 4 Johns. Ch. (N. Y.) 26.