Nexi, among the Romans, persons freeborn, who, for debt, were delivered bound to their creditors, and obliged to serve them until they could pay their debts.
Means debtors given in bondage to creditors until their debts have been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1065.
Next, is only an abbreviation of the word 'nearest'. This word not only suggests propinquity but also order or succession, or relation, as well as 'propinquity', Southgate v. Clinch, 27 LJ Ch 654.