Consent or the withholding of consent to a given course of action has been the criterion of responsibility.

Bossue, with the consent of Lady Amicia, his wife, became a canon regular in his own foundation, in expiation of his rebellious conduct towards his sovereign, and particularly for the injuries which he had thereby brought upon the "goodly towne of Leycestre."

So fur, I can't get Maria's consent to be a cendenary.

I need hardly remark, that even if the consent were not a mere fiction, this maxim is not superior in authority to the others which it is brought in to supersede.

"Why not, since I consent?" "An unwilling consent is no consent.

The question, therefore, whether our adoption of representative democracy was a mistake, raises the preliminary question whether the consent of the members of a community is a necessary condition of good government.

V. CONSENT IS TO BE SECURED AND ESTABLISHED BY SOLEMN BETROTHING.

The crime of rape was punishable by death, and consent, though proved, was no defense, if the offense was committed upon a child under ten years of age.

If the Assembly consent to this, all that will remain of the 18th of March will be the recollectionpainful enough, without doubtof one sanguinary day, while out of a great evil will come a great benefit.

She therefore soon persuaded her son to give the gentle captive entirely into her charge, saying that she would make her consent to become his bride.

You are not long T'expect, with the consent of men and angells, That which to take now from me will be losse A losse of heaven to thee.

Their consent would be the share of cruel sacrifice, that life demands, their supreme gift to life, the tithe levied by life on their affection and their blood.

Túr readily undertook to commit that crime, and, on the following day, at an interview with Irij, he said to him: "Why didst thou consent to be the ruler of Persia, and fail in showing a proper regard for the interests of thy elder brothers?

A scattering consent was the response, and the crowd, thinned now and drowsy, straggled quietly down toward the old house.

Consent is the essential of marriage; all succeeding ceremonies are its formalities.

A girl's consent was a matter of secondary importance: "She had to agree if her parents were in favor of the match."