Absolution

a term generally used in the sense remi ion of sins, although it was at one time term in Roman law. There has been some differ in the forms of absolution as administered different times, which may be cla ed as the or optative, and the declaratory or absolution. The latter is much more than the former; at first the formula use was Deus or Christ us absolvit te; later, how this was changed to ego absolvo te. Absolution used in ecclesiastical law signifies the release of individual from church censures and from all belonging to them. In the English service absolution is always precatory, in the case of the Service for Visitation of Sick, when it is indicative—the priest using words, “By His authority committed to me, I thee from all thy sins.” Absolvitor. That decree in Scottish law ends a case in favour of the defendant.