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absolvitor Sc. Law.|æbˈsɒlvɪtɔː(r)|
Also 6 -ure, 6–7 -our(e, 7–9 -ur.
[L. absolvitor ‘let him (her) be absolved’, 3rd pers. sing. imperative pass. of absolvere to absolve.]
A decision of the court in favour of the defender.
1547Burgh Rec. Aberdeen I. 250 Maister Thomas Dauesoun..protestit that the said freris haue any absoluitour of the said Johnis clame. 1586Protest of A. Hunter in De Foe Mem. Ch. Scot. (1717) Add. 196 The Person excommunicated declaring no Signs of true Repentance, nor craving the said Absolviture by himself, nor by his Procurators. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Form of Proces 122 They will pronunce sentence absolvitor, or condemnatour, in the principal cause conform to these rules. 1859in J. F. Macqueen Rep. Cases Ho. Lords (1861) III. 760 If the absolvitor had been a general absolvitor on the merits of the cause. 1910Encycl. Brit. I. 76 s.v. Absolution. |