What is the meaning of the word “nearest” in English law?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Rex v. Georget, 1914 CanLII 214 (SK CA):
The only decided case in England where the interpretation of the word “nearest” has been in question is in Bathard v. London Sewers Commissioners, 54 J.P. 135. In this case it is held that the words, “nearest sewer,” are not to be taken in their literal sense, but as meaning the nearest sewer which a person, by exercising only his proprietary rights, can reach.
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