IMMEDIAT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IMMEDIATE. That which is produced directly by the act to which it is 
  ascribed, without the intervention or agency of any distinct intermediate 
  cause. 
       2. For immediate injuries the remedy is trespass; for those which are 
  consequential, an action on the case. 11 Mass. R. 59, 137, 525; 1 & 2 Ohio 
  R. 342; 6 S. & R. 348; 18 John. 257; 19 John. 381; 2 H. & M. 423; 1 Yeates, 


  R. 586; 12 S & R. 210; Coxe, R. 339; Harper's R. 113; 6 Call's R. 44; 1 
  Marsh. R. 194. 
       3. When an immediate injury is caused by negligence, the injured party 
  may elect to regard the negligence as the immediate cause of action, and 
  declare in case; or to consider the act itself as the immediate injury, and 
  sue in trespass. 14 John. 432; 6 Cowen, 342; 3 N. H. Rep. 465; sed vide 3 
  Conn. 64; 2 Bos. & Pull. New Rep. by Day, 448, note. See Cause.