Also known as: immediately
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A Latin adverb requiring that a specified act be performed without delay or at the earliest moment permitted by law.
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Stella Shapiro snatched a purse from Spencer Silver on the sidewalk and began to run. Spencer immediately gave chase and tackled her within seconds to recover the bag. The force used statim after the taking satisfied the requirement that threats or force retain possession right after obtaining the property.
After the states appointed electors, the Senate opened the certificates. The President of the Senate counted the votes statim in the presence of both houses as the constitutional process demanded.
Sierra Santos saw a car run a red light and collide with another vehicle. She described the event statim to a bystander while still perceiving the scene, allowing the statement to qualify as an exception to hearsay.
Samuel Soto grabbed merchandise and threatened the clerk with a knife. The threat occurred statim during the theft and elevated the offense under the first-degree robbery provision.
Sapphire Holdings sold its leased building to Sterling Dynamics while still bound by a repair covenant. The original landlord remained obligated statim after the transfer because the duty rested on privity of contract and was not released.
Simon Stern blocked the exit and warned Sierra Santos that any attempt to leave would trigger immediate physical force. The threat confined her statim by submission to the risk of force if she crossed the boundary.
Statim requires that force or threats be used either to obtain property or to retain it right after the taking, such as by stopping immediate pursuit.
Statim permits a statement describing an event when made while or right after the declarant perceived it, satisfying the present sense impression rule.
Statim preserves the transferor's contractual duties to perform lease covenants that touch and concern the property unless released by the entitled party.
…Roe. Pp. 129-166. (a) The principle that a court may not enjoin enforcement of a statute unless the plaintiff shows that he is immediately threatened with irreparable injury is not applicable where the plaintiff attacks the facial validity of the statute on the ground that it is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad. Pp.…