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1 a: free from qualification, condition, exception, or restriction Example: rights that even seem absolute have these qualifications -- Long v. Rockwood, 277 U.S. 142 (1927) (see also absolute ownership at ownership) (compare qualified) bin the civil law of Louisiana : having or allowing no legal effect Example: an absolute impediment 2: final and not liable to modification (sometimes used after the word it modifies) Example: divorce absolute (compare nisi)
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