- passive connivance
- Conduct of the complaining spouse which smoothed the path of the other to the adulterous bed. Vinton v Vinton, 264 Mass 71, 161 NE 817.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
passive connivance
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