Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content, distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction.
The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
The distribution of good and evil by God to man.