Forthwith

As soon as by reasonable exertion, confined to the object, it may be accomplished. (Approved in Dickerman v. Trust Co., 176 U. S. 193, 20 Sup. Ct. 311, 44 L. Ed. 423.) This is the import of the term; it varies, of course, with every particular case; 4 Tyrwh. 837; Edwards v. Ins. Co., 75 Pa. 378.

See Scammon v. Ins. Co., 101 111. 021; 11 H. L. Cas. 337; Bennett v. Ins. Co., 67 N. Y. 274; Pennsylvania R. Co. v. Reichert, 58 Md. 261; Meriden Silver Plate Co. V. Flory, 44 Ohio St. 437, 7 N. E. 753.

It is not as promptly as Immediately; in some cases it might mean within a reasonable time; 7 Dowl. 789. When a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty-four hours; Wharton. In other matters of practice, the word has come to have the same meaning; 2 Edw. 328; Dickerman v. Trust Co., 176 U. S. 193, 20 Sup. Ct. 311, 44 L. Ed. 423. A demand for an account forthwith is not the same In substance and effect as a demand -for an account within 15 days; Green v. Kelley, 64 Vt. 309, 24 Atl. 133. Where a verdict was returned between noonand one p. m. on Saturday, while the justice was hearing other cases, an entry of judgment on the verdict on Monday was sufficient under a statute requiring it to be rendered “forthwith”; Sorenson v. Swensen, 66 Minn. 58, 50 N. W. 350, 43 Am. St. Rep. 472. Where a chattel mortgage must “be forthwith deposited” to affect subsequent hona fide purchasers, the filing more than three months after execution was notice to pur-' chasers who took title after the filing; Vickers V. Carnahan, 4 Tex. Civ. App. 306, 23 S. W. 338. A statute providing that an order to revive an action may be made forthwith, means at the first term after plaintiff’s death; Horsley v. Asher’s Heirs, 94 Ky. 314, 22 S. W. 434. When an insurance policy required notice of loss to be given forthwith, it was sufficient twelve days after the fire when no harm was caused by delay; Capitol Ins. Co. V. Wallace, 60 Kan. 453, 31 Pac. 1070. FORTIA (Lat). A word, of art, signifying the furnishing a weapon of force to do the fact, and by force whereof the fact was committed, and he that furnished It was not present when the act was done.

Co. 2d Inst. 182.

The general meaning of the word is an un-