For example, some jurisdictions prohibit consensual combat (other than in specially-sanctioned sports, such as boxing).
In such a jurisdiction, the people arrested for brawling cannot avoid prosecution by condoning one another's assaults.
[citation needed] In the civil law of the common law legal systems, if a creditor states that they forgive a certain debt, they might be blocked (or estopped) from attempting to collect that same debt at a later date.
The most typical way in which condonation occurred is if the wronged spouse, with knowledge of the act, voluntarily engaged in sexual relations with the wrongdoer.
The principle of condonation in military law is traced back to the "Memorandum on Corporal Punishment" issued by the Duke of Wellington on 4 March 1832:[1] "The performance of a duty of honour or of trust, after the knowledge of an offence committed by a soldier, ought to convey a pardon for the offence."