Absolute

Unconditional; complete and perfect in itself, without relation to, or dependence on, other things or persons,—as an absolute right; without condition, exeeption, restriction, qualification, or limitation, —as an aisolute conveyance, an absolute estate; final, peremptory,—as an absolute rule

* Exclusive; without condition or incumbrance; complete; perfect; final; opposed to conditional, qualified, relative: as. Absolute or an absolute — acceptance, alienation, allegiance, bail, bond, confirmation, conveyance, decree, delivery, divorce, estate, fee, guaranty, nullity, ownership, possession, privilege, property, right, rule, sale, waiver, warranty, qq. v. Absolute means complete, unconditional, not relar tive, not limited, independent of anything extraneous. In the sense of " complete, not limited," distinguishes an estate in fee from an estate in remainder. In the sense of " imoonditional," describes a bond, a conveyance, or an estate without condition. In the sense of " not relative," describes the rights of a man in a state of nature, as contradistinguished from those which pertain to him in his social relations. Characterizes a pure estate, unmixed and unconnected with any peculiarities or aualiflcations; a naked estate, freed from every qualification and restriction, in the donee- Thus, it may describe an estate given to a married > Fitch V. Waite, 5 Conn. 121 (1823). 2 Morris v. Bienvenu, 30 La. An. 880 (1878): Civ. Code, art. 3556. woman, without the exclusion of the husband, in distinction from an estate qualified with that exclusion. The most usual acceptation, when used of estates, is, not independent, but the opposite of partial or Conditional.^ Absolute is often used as the opposite of "conditional " and in the same sense as " perfect." It signifies without any condition or incumbrance.' That is an absolute interest in property which is so completely vested in the individual that he can by no contingency be deprived of it without his own consent. " Absolute " may be used synonymously with "vested," and as contradistinguished from contingent or conditional; as in speaking Of the absolute property of an assured.'

Unconditional; complete in itself; Absolute conveyance: one without condition Absolute estate to in abatement: to sue; or they deright; v. Plea. down, or destroy. per vent: thrown forestalling of a to sell at retail. Abduxit, he caraway of a wife, presejit at the crime; or after. in abeyance when can vest. declaration of a party attacked as forged, at driving them away in amerciaments. accused of any refuge in a church confessing his offence persons not under under age; the law not relative; final. or qualification. condition. Rule absocarried immediately and unconditionally into effect; distinguished from a rule nisi, which is not to be carried into effect unless no cause be shown against it. A rule nisi, on being confirmed at the hearing, becomes absolute. Absolute -warrandice: in Scotch practice, warranty against all the world.

[Lat. absolutum, absoluta, absolutus; from absolvere, to discharge, or perfect.] Complete and perfect in itself, without relation to, or dependence on other things or persons; as an absolute right. Without condition, exception, restriction, qualification or limitation; as an absolute conveyance, an absolute estate. Final, peremptory; as an absolute rule. See infra.

signifies without any condition or encumbrance, as an ‘absolute bond,” simplex obligatio, in distinction from a_ conditional bond; an absolute estate, one that is free from all manner of condition or encumbrance. A rule is said to be absolute, when, on the hearing, it is confirmed. As to the effect of an absolute conveyance, see 1 Pow. Mortg. 125; in relation to absolute rights, 1 Chitty, Pl. 364; 1 Chitty, Pr. 32.