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CONSENT-RULE

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 A superseded instrument in which a defendant in an action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious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 5 Coke, 80. Consentire matrimonio non possunt infra [ante] annos nubiles. Parties cannot consent to marriage within the years of marriage, [before the age of consent.] 6 Coke, 22. Consequentls non est consequential. Bac. Max. The consequence of a consequence exists not.

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