Condonation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The conditional forgiveness or remission, by a husband or vidfe, of a matrimonial offense which the other has committed. Condonation is the remission by one of the named parties of an offense which he knows the other has committed, on the condition, implied where it is not expressed, of being continually afterwards treated by the other with conjugal kindness.
2 Bish. Mar., Div. & Sep. § 269.
Condonation may be either express or implied (27 Ind. 186), as by continued matrimonial cohabitation after knowledge of the offense (13 N. J. Eq. 81). Conditional forgiveness, whereby one parlation of the marriage vows.
59 111. App. 571.