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absolute

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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