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Absolute title

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

As applied to title to land, an "absolute" title means an exclusive title, or at least a title which excludes ali others not compatible with it; an absolute title to land cannot exist at the same lime in different persons or in different governments.

Johnson v. McIntosh, 8 Wheat. 543 , 588, 5 L. Ed. 681,