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Near. In the Railway and (English) Canal Traffic Act, 1854, used of railway stations not more than one mile distant from each other; and in the (English) Unemployed Workmen Act,1905, s. 1 (a), by which the Ministry of Health may make orders extending s. 1 to 'boroughs or districts adjoining or near to London,' used without any definition. [S. 40(1)(e), Cr.P.C.]