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51absolute trust — UK US noun [C] ► FINANCE, LAW a legal arrangement in which a person gives an individual or organization control of their money or property after their death, and names the person or people who will receive it at a particular time. These details… …
52absolute discharge — absolute discharge, Law. (in Great Britain) the discharge of an offender upon payment of a fine or court costs, which is not considered to be a conviction, nor entered in police records as a criminal case …
53absolute impediment — Law. a fact or circumstance that disqualifies a person from lawful marriage. * * * …
54Absolute magnitude — In astronomy, absolute magnitude (also known as absolute visual magnitude) is the apparent magnitude an object would have if it were at a standard luminosity distance (10 parsecs, 1 AU, or 100 km depending on object type) away from the observer,… …
55Law and divorce around the world — This article is a general overview of divorce laws around the world. Every nation except Malta,the Philippines and the Vatican City allows legal divorce. [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSMAN22419320070213 Filipinos celebrate… …
56Absolute rotation — In physics, the consideration of absolute rotation rotation independent of any external reference is a topic of debate about relativity, cosmology, and the nature of physical laws. The question of whether absolute rotation is meaningful is… …
57Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement — ▪ 2006 Introduction Trials of former heads of state, U.S. Supreme Court rulings on eminent domain and the death penalty, and high profile cases against former executives of large corporations were leading legal and criminal issues in 2005.… …
58law, philosophy of — Introduction the formulation of concepts and theories to aid in understanding the nature of law, the sources of its authority, and its role in society. In English speaking countries the term “jurisprudence” is often used synonymously and is …
59Absolute time and space — See also: Absolute rotation, Bucket argument, Rotating spheres, and Inertial frame of reference Originally introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the concepts of absolute time and space provided a… …
60Absolute zero — For other uses, see Absolute Zero (disambiguation). Absolute zero is the theoretical temperature at which entropy reaches its minimum value. The laws of thermodynamics state that absolute zero cannot be reached using only thermodynamic means. A… …
