summarily

summarily
Expeditiously; dispensing with formalities which merely delay action. A statute giving the orphans' court the power "summarily" to direct payment of the prorated portions of an estate tax will be construed as not dispensing with the essential elements of due process as regards notice and opportunity to be heard. Moreland's Estate, 351 Pa 623, 42 A2d 63, 1 ALR2d 972.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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