Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1838, 1927
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LENOCINIUM, n. Also in Scotticised form lenociny (Sc. 1745 Morison Decisions 334). Sc. Law: the connivance or encouragement by one of the partners in a marriage of the adultery of the other, implying collusion and thus acting as a bar to divorce (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 50). [lino′sɪnjəm]Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 318:
Lenocinium, however, — that is, the husband's participation in the profits of his wife's prostitution, or even the husband's connivance in her guilt, is a good defence to the wife against an action of divorce.Sc. 1927 Gloag & Henderson Intro. Law Scot. 525:
Another plea in defence to an action of divorce for adultery is Lenocinium or Connivance … there must be active facilitation of the offence.
