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Another term for consent decree. … [Read more...] about CONSENT JUDGMENT

Another term for consent decree. … [Read more...] about CONSENT ORDER

In the English practice, still adhered to in some of the states of the American Union, the defendant in ejectment is required to enter on record that he confesses the lease, entry, and ouster of the plaintiff; this is called the consent rule. 2. The consent rule contains the following particulars, namely: 1. The person appearing consents to be made defendant instead of the … [Read more...] about CONSENT RULE

In ecclesiastical law. To dedicate to sacred purposes, as a bishop by imposition of hands, or a church or churchyard by prayers, etc. Consecration is performed by a bishop or archbishop. Consooratio est periodus electlonis; electio est praembula consecrationis. 2 Rolle, 102. Consecration is the termination of election; election is the preamble of consecration. … [Read more...] about CONSECRATE

In English practice. A superseded instrument in which a defendant in an action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious lease, entry, and ouster, but that be was in possession. Consentiontes et agentes pari poena plectentur. They who consent to an act and they who do it shall be visited with equal punishment … [Read more...] about CONSENT-RULE