Immediate
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
1.
Present; at once; without delay; not deferred by any interval of time. In this sense, the word, without any very precise signification, denotes that action is or must be taken either instantly or without any considerable loss of time, Immediately does not, in legal proceedings, necessarily import the exclusion of any interval of time. Itis a word of no very definite signification, and is much in subjection to its grammutical connections.
31 N. J. Law, 313.
2, Not separated in respect to place; not separated by the intervention of any intermediate object, cause, relation, or right. Thus we speak of an action as prosecuted for the “immediate benefit” of A., of a devise as made to the “immediate issue” of B., ete.