Laches vs Acquiescence - What's the difference?
laches | acquiescence |
(legal) Legal doctrine that a person who waits too long to bring a claim alleging a wrong shall not be permitted to seek an equitable remedy because the delay prejudiced the moving party. Sleeping on one's rights.
* Macaulay
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.
(legal) Submission to an injury by the party injured, or tacit concurrence in the action of another.
As a verb laches
is .As a noun acquiescence is
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.laches
English
(wikipedia laches)Noun
(-)- It ill became him to take advantage of such a laches with the eagerness of a shrewd attorney.