Sufferance

Noun.1. Patience; moderation; a bearing with patience

2. Toleration; permission; allowance; negative consent by not forbidding or hindering. “In process of time, sometimes by sufferance, sometimes by special leave and favor, they erected to themselves oratories.” “In their beginning, they are weak and wan, But soon through sufferance grow to fearful end.” “An estate at sufferance, in law, is where a person comes into possession of land by lawful title, but keeps it after the title ceases, without positive leave of the owner.” In law, passively allowing someone to do what he has no right to do, for which the active form would be license. Acceptance of a tort, without claiming damages and seeking recourse, and imposing a liability. Limiting liability.