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Meaning of Instanter
(Lat.) Immediately; presently; instantly; forthwith; without any delay or the allowance of any time. This term, it is said, means that the act to which it applies shall be done within twenty-four 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, 343; 6 East, 587, note (e); Tidd. Prac. (3d Ed.) 508, note; 3 Chit. Prac. 112. See 3 Burrows, 1809; Co. Litt. 157; Styles, Reg. 452; 20 111. App. 110, Pleading. An order that the defendants plead instanter technically means within the judicial day then begun. 1 Bouvier Law Die. 645; 20 111. App. 110. It is probably true that the term, as ordinarily used, is understood to mean instantly, immediately, or at once, so that upon such a rule, a default may follow the entry of the rule, and this, in effect, makes the rule unnecessary, for the default might as well be entered without it. 53 111, App, 160, 161,
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Concept of “Instanter”
Traditional meaning of instanter in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Immediately; see 4th Book (“Of Public Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 396.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Instanter”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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