Acquiescence
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A silent appearance of consent.
Worcester.
It is to be distinguished from avowed consent, on the one hand, and from open discontent or opposition, on the other. It amounts to a consent which is impliedly given by one or both parties to a proposition, a clause, a condition, a judgment, or to any act whatever. It imports an assent which, though implied, is to some extent active, and is to be distinguished from laches, which is mere passive neglect.
69 Cal. 255.