A paper ballot submitted, before an election day and often by mail, by a voter who is unable to attend the official polling station on election day. Also called absentee vote.
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Absentee Ballot
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Absolute
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1) Property: Used in property law to describe an estate that is free from any limitations at all. Only a fee simple may be absolute.
2) Divorce: An absolute divorce is a final judgment of divorce that dissolves the marriage and allows...
Absolute Disparity
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A calculation used to analyze a claim that a jury pool did not represent a fair cross-section of the community. Calculated by subtracting the percentage of a group in the jury pool from the percentage of that group in the general population...
Absolute Privilege
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Absolute privilege, in defamation law, refers to the fact that in certain circumstances, an individual is immune from liability for defamatory statements..
OverviewAbsolute privilege applies to statements made in certain contexts or in...
Absolute-Bar Rule
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A rule preventing a creditor who sells collateral in a commercially unreasonable manner, e.g. without giving reasonable notice to the debtor, from obtaining a deficiency judgment.
Illustrative caselawSee, e.g. Beardmore v. American...
Abstention Doctrine
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Abstract of Judgment
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Abstract of Trust
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A shortened version of a Living Trust document, leaving out certain details (what is in the trust, the beneficiaries' identity). This is often used to provide proof that a trust has been established to a financial organization or other...