Silence
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The state of a person who does not speak or of one who refrains from speaking. In the law of estoppel, "silence" implies knowledge and an opportunity to act upon it.
Pence v. Langdon, 99 U. S. 581, 25 In Ed. 420; Stewart v. Wyoming Cattle Ranch Co., 128 In S. 383, 9 Sup. Ct 101, 32 L. Ed. 489; Chicora Fertilizer Co. v. Dunan, 81 Md. 144, 46 Atl. 347, 50 L. R. A. 401.