decree absolute
Formerly, a decree of divorce, nullity, or presumption of death that brought a marriage to a legal end, enabling the parties to remarry. It was usually issued six weeks after the decree nisi (unless there were exceptional reasons why it should be given sooner). It has been replaced by the divorce order, the nullity of marriage order, and the declaration of presumed death (see presumption of death).

• port alert
• portion
• port tranquillity doctrine
• positive discrimination
• positive law
• positivist school of criminology
• possession
• possessory lien
• possessory title
• possibility
• possibility of reverter
• post-adoption contact
• postliminy
• postmodernist legal thought
• post-mortem
• postnuptial settlement
• potentially exempt transfer
• power
• power in the nature of a trust
• power of appointment
• power of arrest
• power of attorney
• power of sale
• power of search
• power reserved by executor