Transitory /(?)/

Tran·si·to·ry

Transitory

a.
  1. Continuing only for a short time; not enduring; fleeting; evanescent.
    Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble.
    — Bk. of Com. Prayer.
    It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then . . . vanishes into nothing.

Phrases & Compounds

Transitory action
an action which may be brought in any county, as actions for debt, and the like; -- opposed to local action.