Compatibility

Such harmony between the duties of two offices that they may be discharged by one person.

C0MPENSACI0N.

In Spanish Law. The extinction of a debt by another debt of equal dignity between persons who have mutual claims on each other.

C0MPENSATI0 CR I MINIS.

The compensation or set-off of one crime against another: for example, in questions of divorce, where one party claims the divorce on the ground of adultery of his or her companion, the latter may show that the complainant has been guilty of the same offence, and, having himself violated the contract, cannot complain of its violation on the other side. This principle is incorporated in the codes of most civilized nations.

See 1 Hagg. Cons. 144; 1 Hagg. Eccl. 714; Wood v. Wood, 2 Paige, Ch. (N. Y.) 108, 2 D. & B. 64; Bishop, Marr. & D. §§ 393, 394.