Comity

• Note: not to be confused with "committee".

"Comity" means:

1. mutual courtesy; civility.
2. Also called comity of nations. courtesy between nations, as in respect shown by one country for the laws, judicial decisions, and institutions of another.
3. Friendly social atmosphere.
   1. A social harmony group activities promoting comity bipartisan comity in the Senate.
4. A loose widespread community based on common social institutions the comity of civilization.
5. Comity of nations trans-Atlantic comity.
6. The informal and voluntary recognition by courts of one jurisdiction of the laws and judicial decisions of another.

Plural- comities.

• Sources: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/comity, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comity, http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/student?book=Student&va=comity and http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Comity