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permissive adj. 1) referring to any act which is allowed by court order, legal procedure, or agreement. 2) tolerant or allowing of others' behavior, suggesting contrary to others' standards.

permissive adjective acquiescent, allowing, complaisant, discretional, granting, indulgent, lenient, liberal, mild, nonprohibitive, tolerant, tolerating, volitive, yielding
Associated concepts: permissive counterclaim, permissive joinder, permissive statute, permissive use

PERMISSIVE. Allowed; that which may be done; as permissive waste, which is the permitting real estate to go to waste; when a tenant is bound to repair he is punishable for permissive waste. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2400. See Waste.
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212) Instead it seems that drug use did not require high-level Agency approval and was authorized permissively on an ad hoc basis.
Interrogation's law by Levi, William Ranney / Yale Law Journal
Intervention into a suit is allowed either "of right" under Rule 24(a) (22) or permissively at the judge's discretion after balancing efficiency and prejudice concerns under Rule 24(b).
Has the Bowsher doctrine solved the debate? The relationship between ... by Timmermans, Elizabeth Zwickert / Notre Dame Law Review
153), we realise that the basic needs are not primitive forces that need to be disciplined and controlled but rather weak forces which should be accepted and encouraged to emerge spontaneously, naturally, permissively.
Story skills and hierarchies of needs and values: a defence of the ... by Viljoen, Hein / Journal of Literary Studies
 
 
 
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