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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
At once. "Though in strictness it excludes all mean times, it shall be construed such convenient time as is reasonably requisite for doing the thing."
2 Lev. 77.
It is stronger than the phrase "within a reasonable time," and implies prompt, vigorous action, without any delay.
L. R. 4 Q. B. 469.
Acting with nothing interposed or between, or without the intervention of another object as a cause, means, medium or condition; producing its effect by direct agency.
60 111. App. 108.