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comity (KOM-i-tee) - n., friendly social harmony, mutual civility; friendly understanding and mutual recognition between two entities, especially nations.
In the latter, sometimes in full "comity of nations," the nations involved have mutual recognition of each other's executive, legislative, and judicial acts. There's a comity in a legal context, the recognition by courts of one jurisdiction of the laws and judicial decisions of another. Both of these are extensions into specific contexts of the first meaning, which was derived (in 1543) from Latin cōmitās, from cōmis, friendly.
---L.
In the latter, sometimes in full "comity of nations," the nations involved have mutual recognition of each other's executive, legislative, and judicial acts. There's a comity in a legal context, the recognition by courts of one jurisdiction of the laws and judicial decisions of another. Both of these are extensions into specific contexts of the first meaning, which was derived (in 1543) from Latin cōmitās, from cōmis, friendly.
---L.
