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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Completely, wholly; without qualification; without reference or relation to, or dependence upon, any other person, thing or event. To give property to a person absolutely, is to create such person the absolute and uncontrolled owner of it. But it has been held that the word absolutely, in a will, may be so far quahfied by accompanying expressions as to convey only a limited interest.

See 2 Penn. St. R. 120, 133.

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