Consent Rule
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
AJi eptry of record by the defendant, confessing the lease, entry, and ouster by the plaintiff, in an action of ejectment. This was, until recently, used in England and in those of the United States in which the action of ejectment is still retained as a means of acquiring possession of land. CONSENTIENTES ET AGENTES PARI poena plectentur. Those consenting and CONSENTIRE MATRIMONIO NON POSsunt infra annos nublles. Persons cannot consent to marriage before marriageable years.
5 Coke, 80; 6 Coke, 22.