immediately

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Immediate ( lat. immediatus immediately ', without switching') stands for:

  • legally "in the jurisdiction of a higher instance":
    • Immediatrecht was the monarch's direct access and right of presentation
    • Imperial immediacy as a term for the legal relationship not to the sovereignty of a prince, but only to persons and institutions subordinate to the emperor and the empire
    • a Roman Catholic diocese or quasi-diocese that is not subordinate to any metropolitan or archbishopric, but rather directly to the Holy See in Rome, see exemption
    • Abbot superior in the Cistercian and Trappist orders of the daughter monasteries, see Pater Immediat
    • a public building with the highest authority, see Immediatbau
    • a request addressed directly to the highest authority (formerly the sovereign) , immediate request , immediate submission, immediate matter
  • an immediate denture in dentistry, see Immediatprothese


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