Consent rule
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
A proceeding iiled by the defendant in an action of ejectment, by which he bound himself to admit all the necessary fictions. Consentientes et agentes pari poena plectentur, /. Those who consent (to an act) and those who act shaU be punished equally.