Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    To give an implied consent to a transaction, to the accrual of a right or to any act, by one's mere silence or without express assent or acknowledgment. Matthews v. Murchison (C. Ct) 17 Fed. 760; Cass County v. Plotner, 149 Ind. 116, 48 N. E. 635; Scott v. Jackson, 89 Cal. 258, 26 Pan. 898.