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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
consent
    n 1: permission to do something; "he indicated his consent"
    v 1: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I
         cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"
         [syn: accept, consent, go for] [ant: decline,
         refuse]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consent \Con*sent"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Consented; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Consenting.] [F. consentir, fr. L. consentire,
   -sensum, to feel together, agree; con- + sentire to feel. See
   Sense.]
   1. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind;
      to accord; to concur.
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            And Saul was consenting unto his death. --Acts.
                                                  viii. 1.
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            Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much
            consenting with him in jugdment.      --Fuller.
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   2. To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to
      guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or
      approval; to comply.
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            My poverty, but not my will, consents. --Shak.
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            And whispering "I will ne'er consent," -- consented.
                                                  --Byron.

   Syn: To accede; yield; assent; comply; agree; allow; concede;
        permit; admit; concur; acquiesce.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consent \Con*sent"\, v. t.
   To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit. [Obs.]
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         Interpreters . . . will not consent it to be a true
         story.                                   --Milton.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Consent \Con*sent"\, n. [Cf. OF. consent.]
   1. Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind;
      accord.
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            All with one consent began to make excuse. --Luke
                                                  xiv. 18.
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            They fell together all, as by consent. --Shak.
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   2. Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations;
      agreement; harmony; coherence.
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            The melodious consent of the birds.   --Holland.
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            Such is the world's great harmony that springs
            From union, order, full consent of things. --Pope.
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   3. Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done
      or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance;
      approval; permission.
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            Thou wert possessed of David's throne
            By free consent of all.               --Milton.
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   4. (Law) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or
      agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose,
      implying physical and mental power and free action.
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   5. (Physiol.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

   Syn: Assent; acquiescence; concurrence; agreement; approval;
        permission. See Assent.
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   Age of consent (Law), an age, fixed by statute and varying
      in different jurisdictions, at which one is competent to
      give consent. Sexual intercourse with a female child under
      the age of consent is punishable as rape.
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5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CONSENT. An agreement to something proposed, and differs from assent. (q.v.)
Wolff, Ins. Nat. part 1, SSSS 27-30; Pard. Dr. Com. part 2, tit. 1, n. 
1, 38 to 178. Consent supposes, 1. a physical power to act; 2. a moral power 
of acting; 3. a serious, determined, and free use of these powers. Fonb. Eq. 
B; 1, c. 2, s. 1; Grot. de Jure Belli et Pacis, lib. 2, c. 11, s. 6. 
     2. Consent is either express or implied. Express, when it is given viva 
voce, or in writing; implied, when it is manifested by signs, actions, or 
facts, or by inaction or silence, which raise a presumption that the consent 
has been given. 
     3. - 1. When a legacy is given with a condition annexed to the bequest, 
requiring the consent of executors to the marriage of the legatee, and under 
such consent being given, a mutual attachment has been suffered to grow up, 
it would be rather late to state terms and conditions on which a marriage 
between the parties should take place;. 2 Ves. & Beames, 234; Ambl. 264; 2 
Freem. 201; unless such consent was obtained by deceit or fraud. 1 Eden, 6; 
1 Phillim. 200; 12 Ves. 19. 
     4. - 2. Such a condition does not apply to a second marriage. 3 Bro. C. 
C. 145; 3 Ves. 239. 
     5. - 3. If the consent has been substantially given, though not modo et 
forma, the legatee will be held duly entitled to the legacy. 1 Sim. & Stu. 
172; 1 Meriv. 187; 2 Atk. 265. 
     6. - 4. When trustees under a marriage settlement are empowered to sell 
"with the consent of the husband and, wife," a sale made by the trustees 
without the distinct consent of the wife, cannot be a due execution of their 
power. 10 Ves. 378. 
     7. - 5. Where a power of sale requires that the sale should be with the 
consent of certain specified individuals, the fact of such consent having 
been given, ought to be evinced in the manner pointed out by the creator of 
the power, or such power will not be considered as properly executed. 10 
Ves. 308. Vide, generally, 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. 161, 165, 169; Ayliffe's 
Pand. 117; 1 Rob. Leg.. 345, 539. 
     8. - 6. Courts of equity have established the rule, that when the true 
owner of property stands by, and knowingly suffers a stranger to sell the 
same as his own, without objection, this will be such implied consent as to 
render the sale valid against the true owner. Story on Ag. Sec. 91 Story on 
Eq. Jur. Sec. 385 to 390. And courts of law, unless restrained by technical 
formalities, act upon the principles of justice; as, for example, when a man 
permitted, without objection, the sale of his goods under an execution 
against another person. 6 Adolph. & El 11. 469 9 Barn. & Cr. 586; 3 Barn. & 
Adolph. 318, note. 
     9. The consent which is implied in every agreement is excluded, 1. By 
error in the essentials of the contract; ,is, if Paul, in the city of 
Philadelphia, buy the horse of Peter, which is in Boston, and promise to pay 
one hundred dollars for him, the horse at the time of the sale, unknown to 
either party, being dead. This decision is founded on the rule that he who 
consents through error does not consent at all; non consentiunt qui errant. 
Dig. 2, 1, 15; Dig. lib. 1, tit. ult. 1. 116, Sec. 2. 2. Consent is excluded 
by duress of the party making the agreement. 3. Consent is never given so as 
to bind the parties, when it is obtained by fraud. 4. It cannot be given by 
a person who has no understanding, as an idiot, nor by one who, though 
possessed of understanding, is not in law capable of making a contract, as a 
feme covert. See Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. 



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