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Absoile

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

To pardon; to deliver from excommunication.

Stamford, P. C. 72; Kelham.

Sometimes spelled assoile (q. v.) ABSOLUTA SENTENTIA EXPOSITORE non indlget. An absolute, unqualified sentence (or proposition) needs no expositor.

2 Inst. 533.

ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere). Complete; perfect; final; without any condition or incumbrance; as an absolute bond (simplex obligatio), in distinction from a conditional bond.

Absolute Estate

One that is free from all manner of condition or incumbrance. See "Condition." Absolute Rule. One which, on the hearing, has been confirmed and made final.

Absolute Conveyance

One conveymg unconditional title, as distinguished from a mortgage or other conditional conveyance.

1 Powell, Mortg. 125.

Absolute Rights

Such as appertain and belong to particular persons merely as individuals or single persons, as distinguished from relative rights, which are incident to them as members of society.

1 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 123; 1 Chit. PI. 364; 1 Chit. Prac. 32.

Absolute Property

Where a man hath solely aiid exclusively the right and also the occupation of movable chattels; distinguished from a qualified property, as that of a bailee.

2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 388; 2 Kent, Comm. 347.

It includes not only the property, but the right to an immediate and unqualified possession.

7 Barb. (N. Y.) 590.

Absolute Covenant

One which is unconditional or unqualified., Absolute Interest. One which is so completely vested in the individual that he can by no contingency be deprived of it without his own consent. However, the use of the word "absolute" in a deed may be so limited by the context that it may be used in connection with an interest in property without being regarded as the equivalent of "unqualifiedly."

196 111. 87.

Absolute Law

The law of nature, which alone is immutable in theory.

1 Steph. Comm. 21 et seq.

Absolute Warrandice.

In Scotch law

A warranty against all incumbrances whatever.

1 Kames, Eq. 290, 293.