infidelity
infidelity. Unfaithfulness to an obligation; esp., marital unfaithfulness. Cf. ADULTERY.
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remit
remit, vb. 1. To pardon or forgive (the wife could not remit her husband’s infidelity). 2. To abate or slacken; to mitigate (the receipt of money damages remitted the embarrassment of being fired). 3. To refer (a matter for decision) to some authority, esp. to send back (a case) to a lower court (the appellate
avoision
avoision ([schwa]-voy-zh[schwa]n), n. An ambiguous act that falls between legal avoidance and illegal evasion of the law. • The term, coined by Arthur Seldon, an economist, is a blend of evasion and avoidance. Avoision usu. refers to financial acts that are not clearly legal tax avoidance or illegal tax evasion, but it sometimes appears in
condonation
condonation (kon-d[schwa]-nay-sh[schwa]n), n. 1. A victim’s express or (esp.) implied forgiveness of an offense, esp. by treating the offender as if there had been no offense. • Condonation is not usu. a valid defense to a crime. 2. One spouse’s express or implied forgiveness of a marital offense by resuming marital life and sexual intimacy.
infidelitas
infidelitas (in-fi-dee-l[schwa]-tas or -del-[schwa]-tas), n. [Latin] Hist. Infidelity; faithlessness to one’s feudal oath. “Many of the smaller misdeeds were regarded as exhibitions of an infidelitas, which, however, did not amount to a felonia.” 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I 513–14 (2d ed. 1899).
adultery
adultery n. 通奸 在普通法中，已婚或未婚男子同不是自己配偶的已婚女子性交，谓之通奸。通奸和私奸〔fornication〕的区别在于非法性交中女子的婚姻状况，双方均未结婚的男女发生性交的，构成私奸罪。直到18世纪通奸仍由宗教法庭按教规处理。在现代制定法中，通奸和私奸的共同点是非法性交，即同非配偶性交,区别主要在于行为人是否已婚,只要有一方已婚就构成通奸罪。通奸和私奸一般是轻罪或微罪，但在美国有些州，情节恶劣的通奸仍可按重罪处罚。 (→illicit cohabitation; infidelity; criminal conversation)