consent able (konsentabl)

[ Although they consent against Christ, yet doe they much di ent among themselues. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 306. Flourishing many years before Wycliffe, and much con senting with him in judgment. Fuller. They would acknowledge no error or fault in their writings, and yet would seem sometimes to consent with us in the truth. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 176. 2. To agree; yield credence or accord; give a ent, as to a proposition or the terms of an agreed upon; noting a boundary established by the expre agreement or a ent of adjoining owners: as, a consent able line. consentaneity (kon-sen-ta-nē'i-ti), n. [ London Times , Jan. 18, 1856. consentaneous (kon-sen-tā nē-us), a. [= Pg. It. consent a neo, A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell , Letters, iv. 7. The tendency of Europe in our own day. has been æval art, but to med iæval modes and standards of thought. Encyc. Brit ., II. 333. Book of Common Prayer , Solemnization of Matrimony. 3. To yield when one has the right, power, or desire to oppose; accede, as to persuasion or entreaty; aid, or at least voluntarily refrain from opposing, the execution of another person's purpose; comply. My poverty, but not my will, consents. Shak., R. and J., v. 1. Half loath, and half consenting to the ill. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 313. His manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony. Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 140. =Syn. See list under accede . Permit, Consent to , etc. See allow1. II.t trans. To grant; allow; acknowledge; give a ent to. Interpreters... will not consent it to be a true story. Milton. consent (kon-sent'), n. [ I saie for me with full concente, Thi likyng all will I fulfille. York Plays , p. 462. I give consent to go along with you. Shak., T. G. of V., iv. 3. It was his [our Saviour's] own free consent that he went to suffer, for he knew certainly before hand the utmost that he was to undergo. Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. vi. 2. In law, intelligent concurrence in the adoption of a contract or an agreement of such a nature as to bind the party consenting; agreement upon the same thing in the same sense. Consent of parties is implied in all contracts; hence, persons legally incapable of giving consent, as idiots, etc., cannot be parties to a contract. Persons in a state of absolute drunkenne cannot give legal consent, although a le er degree of intoxication will not afford a sufficient ground for annulling a contract. Consent is null where it proceeds on e ential mistake of fact, or where obtained by fraud or by force and fear. 3. Agreement in opinion or sentiment; unity of opinion or inclination. Nowe renewed, and affermed and confer med, by the a ente and consente and agrement off all the Bredern. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 187. They flock together in consent , like so many wild geese. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 1. non Hereupon a Parliament is called; and it is by common Consent of all agreed, that the King should not go in Per Baker, Chronicles, p. 111. son. The term Consensual merely indicates that the Obligation is here annexed at once to the Consensus. The Consensus, or mutual a ent of the parties, is the final and crowning ingredient in the Convention, and it is the special characteristic of agreements falling under one of the four heads of Sale, Partnership, Agency, and Hiring, that, as soon as the a ent of the parties has supplied this ingredient, there is at once a Contract . The Consensus draws with it the Obligation, performing, in transactions of the sort specified, the exact functions which are discharged, in other contracts, by the Res or Thing, by the Verba stipulation is, and by the Literæ or written entry in a ledger. Consensual is therefore a term which does not involve the 4t. A preconcerted design; concert. slightest anomaly, but is exactly analogous to Real, Verbal, and Literal. Maine, Ancient Law, p. 322. Consensual motions, in physiol ., two or more simultaneous motions, of which the secondary or more remote are When the wills of many concur to one and the same action and effect, this concourse of their wills is called consent. Hobbes, Works, IV. xii. IMG:content-1104.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1105.png:[blocks in formation]