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Instant tea

Instant tea, the term 'instant tea' gives a meaning that it is a 'tea', which can be prepared/used instantaneously. Merely...

Instanter

Instanter, immediately; at once. Trial instanter was had where a prisoner between attainder and execution pleaded that he was not...

instant

instant : being under present consideration [the questions presented in the case]

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Immediate purpose

Immediate purpose, 'immediate purpose', in the context in which the expression appears, relates to directness rather than speed, although absence...

Whig

as any cant terms that could be devised, they became instantly as familiar in use as they have since continued.-2 Hallam's

Instant

Instantly

Foothot

Hastily immediately instantly on the spot hotfoot

Royal Assent

given, that which was a bill becomes an Act, and instantly has the force and effect of law as from the

Monstrans de droit

le main or amoveasmanus, by which judgment the Crown is instantly out of possession, and it therefore needs no actual execution.

Forthwith

Forthwith. When a defendant is ordered to plead forthwith, he must plead within twenty four hours. When a statute or...

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