Connivance 1) Ignoring another person's wrongdoing, for example, by indirectly condoning an illegal act by another person. 2) In family law, ...
Connivance definition:
Secretly privy or accessory to the act of another.
A legal term germane to family law generally and divorce in particular as in connivance with another spouse's adultery.
Connivance also differs from collusion. The former is generally collusion for a particular purpose, while the latter may exist without connivance.
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Connivance
A situation set up so that another person commits a wrongdoing.
Connivance
Definition - Noun
: the act of conniving esp. with regard to a spouse's marital misconduct (as adultery)
also
: a defense to a charge of marital misconduct in a divorce proceeding
compare condonation ...
When an embezzlement of a part of the cargo takes place on board of a ship, either from the fault, fraud, connivance or negligence of any of the crow, they are bound to contribute to the reparation of the loss, in proportion to their wages.
(v) Retire is the action by which a person, entity, or connivance ends it existing activities on conclusion, attainment or by completion. For example a supervisor retires from service. A judge retire from the court room after pronouncing the judgment.
By the same act (§49) bailiffs are answerable for any connivance, omission or neglect to levy any such execution. No action can be brought against a bailiff acting under order of the court without six days' notice (§52).
In later times these forfeitures became extremely unpopular; and juries, with the connivance of judges, found deodands of trifling value, so as to defeat the inequitable claim.
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