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Connivance, consent, express or implied, by one spouse to the adultery of the other. If a petitioner be found guilty of connivance, the Court will not decree dissolution of the marriage, (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 172, replacing (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (c. 85), ss. 29, 30.