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decree absolute

noun

C2CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

The final court order that legally ends a marriage and leaves both parties free to remarry.

We advised the client not to remarry until the decree absolute had been sealed by the court.

Similar: final order

Topic: Family law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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