timely as an adverb (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Baker, John]

        This is a standard legal usage, meaning that the appeal was
taken within applicable time limits.  It's a useful term in legal
writing and is used frequently.


John Baker


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OED has "timely" as an adverb but with the notations arch., poet., and
obs., with the most recent citation in three different senses from 1842.

>From  "Millender v. County of Los Angeles (
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2010/08/24/07-55518.pdf
):




"Messerschmidt and Lawrence timely appealed the district court's
determination that they were not entitled to qualified immunity."

I would have said "appealed in a timely fashion/manner", but I'm not a
Justice on the Federal Court of Appeals.

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