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Connivance

Connivance, consent, express or implied, by one spouse to the adultery of the other. If a petitioner be found guilty

Permit

To consent to to allow or suffer to be done to tolerate to put up with

Consentingly

With consent in a compliant manner

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Consensus

Agreement accord consent

sufferance

sufferance : consent or sanction implied by a lack of interference or failure to enforce a prohibition see also estate at

Tail

(13) It may be barred by the tenant-in-tail in possession or by the remainder-man in tail with the consent of the protector of the settlement, though not by the issue-in-tail, except as a base fee (q.v.), under

Marriage

complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a

Desertion

condoned adultery, Houghton v. Houghton, 1903, P. 150. Adultery by a husband after some years' separation by mutual consent is not evidence of desertion, and a wife without cause refusing marital intercourse cannot allege 'desertion' by the

Directors

reversed the law as to laid down. There are, however, qualifications to meet the case of withdrawal of consent to become a director before the issue of the prospectus and that it was issued without his authority,

Volenti non fit injuria

Cas 1155. For a recent application of the maxim, see Herd v. Weardale, etc., Co., 195, AC 67. Consent or 'leave and licence' may be said to be a defence in actions of tort or prosecutions (see

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