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sufferance

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

Consensus

Agreement accord consent

Permit

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

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Preconsent

A previous consent

Connivance

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....

Marriage

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...

Tail

Tail [fr. tailler, Fr., to prune]. An estate-tail was formerly a freehold of inheritance and is now an equitable interest which may be created after 1925 in respect of personalty as well as realty by way...

Adoption

Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany,...

Desertion

Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) Army Act, 1881, replacing similar s.s of the (English) annual Mutiny Acts, and Reg....

Act of Parliament

Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an...

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