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Immediately

Immediately, in a statute, means within a reasonable time. See Maxwell on Statutes, 2nd Edn. 423.The expression 'immediately' is only meant to convey 'reasonable dispatch and promptitude' and no more, Tulsiram v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1985 SC 299: (1984) 4 SCC 487: (1985) 1 SCR 949.The word 'immediately' is interpreted to convey 'reasonable despatch and promptitude' intending to convey a sense of continuity rather than urgency, Rajendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1991 SC 1757 (1759): (1991) 3 SCC 620. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955, R. 9A ]The word 'immediately' connotes proximity in time to comply and proximity in taking steps to re-sell on failure to comply the requirement of deposit as first condition that is to take place within relatively short-interval of time and without any other intervening recurrence, Rao Mahmood Ahmed Khan v. Ranbir Singh, 1995 Supp (4) SCC 275: AIR 1995 SC 2195 (2198). [U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reform Rules (1952), R. 285 ...


As soon as may be

As soon as may be, means 'as soon as practicable', Ashok Kumar v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1982 SC 1143. [National Security Act, (65 of 1980), ss. 3(2) and 8]--when the representation is made it is in the fitness of things that the said representation should be considered with the same sense of urgency with which the grounds are intended to be communicated to the detenu. That is the only way in which the purpose, for which the earliest communication of the grounds to the person concerned is provided, can be achieved. The representation must, therefore, be considered with due promptitude or expedition and without avoidable delay in other words with reasonable dispatch, Durga Pada Ghosh v. State of West Bengal, (1972) 2 SCC 656: AIR 1972 SC 2420 (2426). [Constitution of India, Art. 22(5)]As soon as may be, indicate a positive action on the part of the detaining authority in supplying the grounds of detention, Sophia Gulam Mohd. Bham v. State of Maharashtra, (1999) 6 SCC 593....


Flagrant necessity

Flagrant necessity, a case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act, as an assault to remove a man from impending danger....


Instancy

Instance urgency...


Insistence

The quality of insisting or being urgent or pressing the act of dwelling upon as of special importance persistence urgency...


Implore

To call upon or for in supplication to beseech to pray to or for earnestly to petition with urgency to entreat to beg followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought or the person from whom it is sought...


Beseech

To ask or entreat with urgency to supplicate to implore...


instance

instance [French, from Late Latin instantia, from Latin, the fact of being present or impending, vehemence in speech, urgency, from instant- instans insistent, pressing, from present participle of instare to be pressing, stand upon] : the institution or prosecution of a lawsuit [a court of first ] ...


exigent circumstances

exigent circumstances : circumstances that are of such urgency as to justify a warrantless entry, search, or seizure by police when a warrant would ordinarily be required compare knock and announce rule no-knock search warrant at warrant ...


Verbal note

Verbal note, a memorandum or note, in diplomacy, not signed, sent when an affair has continued a long time without any reply, in order to avoid the appearance of an urgency which, perhaps, is not required; and, on the other hand, to guard against the supposition that it is forgotten, or that there is an intention of not prosecuting it any further....


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