jzaefferer/jquery-validation — pull request #546 by earino (2012-11-12 18:15:41+00:00)
Title: Add prioritization of configured error message over remote result.

There needs to be a way to say: "no matter what the remote call gives you, please use the error message that I provided, instead of the response from the back end." I do this by saying, if the error message configured starts with an exclamation mark (!), use it (after removing the exclamation mark), otherwise, feel free to use the response.