Connivance

An agreement or consent, indirectly given, that something unlawful shall be done by another. A married party's corrupt consenting to evil conduct, of which afterwards he complains.

2 Bish. Mar. & Div. § 203.

Connivance differs from condonation, though the same legal consequences may attend it. Connivance necessarily involves criminality on the part of the individual who connives; condonation may take place without imputing the slightest blame to the party who forgives the injury. Connivance must be the act of the ioimd before the offense has been committed; condonation is the result of a determination to forgive an injury which was not knovni until after it was inflicted.

3 Hagg. Ecc. 350.

An error of judgment not involving a willingness to have the delinquency committed is not connivance.

10 Jur. 829.

Nor is a watching of the guilty parties, without interference.

109 Mass. 408.