Instanter

Immediately; directly; without delay; at once. The word Is a frequent occurrence In indictments for murder where the death is charged as having been the immediate result of a wound or blow inflicted. Where the killing has been alleged to have been caused by a battery it is necessary to allege an assault and to specify the time when the mortal stroke was given and the time of the death; the allegation that he “instantly did die” is insufficient; Lester V. State, 9 Mo. 666; as was an indictment which described the assault and then charges that of the mortal wound inflicted by defendant the deceased “did instantly die;” State V. Lakey, 65 Mo. 217; otherwise had the averment been that the deceased “did then and there Instantly die”; State v. Steeley, 65 Mo. 218, 27 Am. Rep. 271. 8 Dowl. 157; 11 Ad. & El..127; 3 Per & Dav. 52. INSTAR (Lat.). Like; resembling; equivalent: as, instar dentium, like teeth; instar omnium, equivalent to all.

I. Instantly; forthwith; without any delay, or the allowance of any tima v. Forthwith; Immediately. lustantia, L I.

In old English law. Despatch; speedy prosecution.

Immediately; instantly; forthwith; without delay. Trial instanter was had where a prisoner between attainder and execution pleaded that he was not the same who was attainted. When a party is ordered to plead instanter, he must plead the same day. The term is usually understood to mean within twentyfour hours.

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.