Within the legal profession, condonation, or condonance, is a defence argument sometimes made when an accuser has previously forgiven or chosen to ignore an act about which they are now legally complaining. In some legal jurisdictions, and for certain behaviors, it may prevent the accuser from prevailing. It is most frequently presented during divorce proceedings, though it is also used in other legal contexts. Condonation is irrelevant to some acts. For example, some jurisdictions prohibit consensual combat other than in specially sanctioned sports such as boxing, and in such a jurisdiction people arrested for brawling cannot avoid prosecution by condoning one another's assaults.
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Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
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1. Wikipedia: Condonation
a defence argument made when an accuser has previously forgiven or chosen to ignore an act... most frequently presented during divorce proceedingsView the Source Condonation (Wikipedia)
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