Tacit

Silent; not expressed; implied or inferred; manifested by the refraining from contradiction or objection; interred from the situation and circumstances, in the absence of express matter. Thus, tacit consent ls consent inferred from the fact that the party kept silence when he had an opportunity to forbid or refuse.

— Tacit acceptance. In the civil law, a tacit acceptance of an inheritance takes place when some act is done by the heir which necessarily supposes his intention to accept and which he would have no right to do but in his capacity as heir. Civ. Co.de La. 1900, art. 988.

— Tacit hypothecation. In the civil law, a species of lien or mortgage which is created by operation f law without any express agreement of the parties. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 343. In admiralty law, this term is sometimes applied to a maritime lien, which is not, strictly speaking, an hypothecation in the Roman sense of the term, though it resembles it. See The Nestor, 1 Sumn. 73. 18 Fed. Cas. 9,

— Tacit law. A law which derives its authority from the common consent of the people without any legislative enactment. 1 Bouv. Inst. no. 120.

— Tacit mortgage. In the law of Louisiana. The law alone in certain cases gives to the creditor a mortgage on the property of his debtor, without it being requisite that the parties should stipulate it. This is called "legal mortgage." It is called also "tacit mortgage," because it is established by the law without the aid of any agreement Civ. Code La. art. 3311.

— Tacit relocation. In Scotch law. The tacit or implied renewal of a lease, interred when the landlord, instead of warning a tenant to remove at the stipulated expiration of the lease, has allowed him to continue without making a new agreement. Bell, "Relocation."

— Tacit tack. In Scotch law. An implied tack or lease; inferred from a tacksman's possessing peaceably after his tack is expired. 1 Forb. Inst, pt 2. p. 153.