Immediate

Direct; present; near — in time, or kinship. That which is produced directly by the act to which it is ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct, intermediate cause: as, immediate interest. In the law of self-defense, "immediate" generally signifies present in time and place. Thus "immediate danger" of losing life or of sustaining great bodily injury, means that the danger is then and there present and the injury apparently about to be inflicted. "Immediate delivery," among dealers in coal, means a delivery within the present or, in cases, within the succeeding month. An action is said to be prosecuted for the immediate (direct) benefit of a person; and devises are made to immediate issue.

Immediately.

Within reasonable time. Never, or very rarely, employed to designate an exact portion of time. Compare Forthwith.