Instanter

immediately, presently. This term, it is. said, means that the act to which it applies, shall be done within twentyfour hours; but a doubt has been suggested by whom is the account of the hours to be kept, and whether the term instanter as applied to the subject-matter may not be more properly taken to mean “ before the rising of the court,” when the act is to be done in court; or, ‘‘ before the shutting of the office the same night,” when the act is to be done there.

1 Taunt. R. 343; 6 East, R. 587 n. (e); Tidd’s Pr. (3d ed.) 508, n.; 8 Chit. Pr. 112.

Vide, 3 Burr. which one excites another to do something, as to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to commence a suit or to prosecute a criminal. Vide Accomplice.