INSTANTER

Immediately; presently. 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.