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'Imperial immediacy' ( or ''reichsunmittelbarkeit'') was a privileged feudal and political status, a form of statehood, which a city, religious entity or feudal principality of minor lordship could attain within the Holy Roman Empire.
A ''reichsfrei'' city, abbey or territory was under the direct authority of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Imperial Diet, without any intermediary liege lord(s). Advantages were that ''reichsfrei'' regions had the right to collect taxes and tolls themselves, and held juridical rights (including the ''Blutgericht'', 'high' justice including capital punishment) themselves. De facto imperial immediacy corresponded to a semi-independence with a far-reaching autonomy.

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★ Imperial Abbey

★ Imperial Estate

★ Imperial Free City

★ List of states of the Holy Roman Empire

★ Mediatization

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