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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[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.