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absolute impediment

noun

Law.
  1. a fact or circumstance that disqualifies a person from lawful marriage.


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"With respect, your grace, I ask to speak on this absolute impediment, please."

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The man asked to speak to Dr Sentamu about the "absolute impediment" before walking off.

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The court seemed to recognize the ambiguity even as it ruled, 4 to 1, against Beatriz’s appeal, citing the government’s “absolute impediment to authorize the practice of abortion.”

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In a 4-1 ruling last Wednesday, the country’s Supreme Court denied an appeal from Beatriz, citing the country’s legal “absolute impediment to authorize the practice of abortion.”

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Oath of King Henry I, King Henry, on account of the murmuring and enmity which the archbishops and bishops, dukes, counts and other princes of the realm of the Germans, and others who follow them in the same matter of dissension, bring to bear against me, will, within the term which our master Pope Gregory has constituted, either do justice according to his judgment or conclude peace according to his counsels—unless an absolute impediment should stand in his way or in mine.

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