Consensual Contract

A term derived from the civillaw, denoting a contract founded upon and completed by the mere consent of the contracting parties, without any external formality or symbolic act to fix the obligation. Consensus est voluntas plurium ad quos res pertinet, simul juncta.

Lofft, 514.

Consent is the conjoint will of several persons to whom the thing belongs.

Consensus facit legem

Consent makes: the law. (A contract is law between the parties agresing to be bound byit.) Branch. Prine. Consensus, non concubitus, facit nuptias vel matrimonium, et consentire non possunt ante annos nubiles.

6 Cole, 22.

Consent, and not cohabitation, constitutes. nuptials or marriage, and persons cannot consent before marriageable yeara.

1 Ui. Comm. 434.

Consensus tollit errorem.

Co. Litt. 126.

Consent (acquiescence) removes mistake, Consensus voluntas multorum ad quos res pertinet, simul juncta. Consent is the united will of several interested in one subject-matter.

Davis, 48; Branch, Prine.