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Absolute, means free from restriction, qualification or condition e.g. absolute ownership; conclusive and not liable to revision e.g. absolute delivery, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 7.

Absolute, complete, unconditional. A rule or order absolute is a completed judgment of a court, and is so called in contradistinction to a rule or order nisi which is made on the application of one party only without notice to the other (ex parte), to be made absolute unless the other party succeed in showing cause why it should not be made absolute (discharged); but see also DECREE NISI.