Definition of "tacit consent" []

• (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "A special method of promulgation was also introduced wtih the express or tacit consent of the Holy See for the decrees of congregations; they were published at the secretariate of the dicasteries from which they emanated."
• "In 1906, owing to the necessities of the situation, a law was passed by a combination of the Government with the Conservatives and National Liberals, with the tacit consent of the Centre."