1. Present; at once; without delay ; not deferred by any interval oftime. In this sense, the word, without any very precise signification , denotes that actionis or must be taken either instantly or without any considerable loss of time. Immediately does not, in legal proceedings , necessarily import the exclusion of anyinterval of time, it is a word of no very definite signification, and is much in subjectionto its grammatical connections . Howell v. Gaddis, 31 N. J. Law, 313.2. Not separated in respect to place; not separated by the intervention of any intermediateobject, cause, relation, or right. Thus we speak of an action as prosecuted forthe “immediate benefit” of A., of a devise as made to the “immediate issue” of B., etc.
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