CONSENT-RULE

In English practice. A supers·eded instrument, in which a defendant in an action of ejectment speclfiell for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confes& not only the fictitious lease, entry, and ouster, but that he was In po e ion. Consentiente■ et a gentes parl poena plectentur. They who consent to an act, and they who ·do it, shall be visited with equal punishment. 5 Coke, SO. Cons entire matrlmonio non po nnt infra [ante] annos nnbiles. Parties cannot consent to marriage within the years of marriage, [before the age of consent.] 6 Coke, 22 Conseqnentlm non est conseqnentia. Bae. Max. The consequence of a consequence exists not. CONSEQUENTIAL CONTEMPT, The ancient name for what ls now known as "constructive" contempt of court. Ex parte Wright, 65 Ind. 508. See CoNTEMPT. [s. 255]