con·sent

(kən-sĕnt′)

intr.v. con·sent·ed, con·sent·ing, con·sents

1. To give assent, as to the proposal of another; agree: consent to medical treatment; consent to going on a business trip; consent to see someone on short notice. See Synonyms at assent.

2. Archaic To be of the same mind or opinion.

1. Acceptance or approval of what is planned or done by another; acquiescence. See Synonyms at permission.

2. Agreement as to opinion or a course of action: She was chosen by common consent to speak for the group.

[Middle English consenten, from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre : com-, com- + sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

con·sent′er n.

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References in periodicals archive

For a consent to be valid, the consenter must be provided full information about what the proposed action will entail, must comprehend this information, and then voluntarily agree to the process.

Organ donation bill

This flows from SA civil law that allows a participant or their proxy consenter (a plaintiff) to bring a delictual claim, i.e.

Research ethics committees in a tight spot: Approving consent strategies for child research that are prima facie illegal but are ethical in terms of national guidelines

(118) The Court held that the search was permissible provided that a reasonable officer would have concluded that the consenter had authority to permit the search.

Purpose, policing, and the Fourth Amendment

Consent forms must be provided in a language understood by the person giving consent and a translator must be on hand if the investigator taking the consent is not able to speak the consenter's language.

Ethical considerations for critical care research

In this context, the perception of the consenter regarding the validity of their consent is not relevant.

Boni mores and consent for child research in South Africa

Consent, roughly, creates a liberty in the consent recipient (that is, no duty not to do an act), where the act was previously wrong because of the consenter's right (that is, claim).

Consent-based permission to kill people and break their things

In a nut shell Pakistan is in the drivers' seat moderate Taliban as partners in peace Afghanistan is consenter of the process the US playing a facilitator and Saudi Arabia is the host.

Stabilizing Afghanistan: Agenda 2015

Where one party had misrepresented an existing fact, courts have also refused to enforce the promise against the consenter who relied on the misrepresentation.

The unbearable lightness of consent in contract law

Rather than admit that the consent does not and could not justify the act, we denigrate the consent and, necessarily, the consenter as well.

Bias, power, influence, and competence: the implications of human nature on the new NIH conflicts of interest regulations

(30) These circumstances may include such factors as the youth of the consenter, lack of education, low intelligence, and lack of any advisement to the consenter of his constitutional rights.

Third-party consent to search: analyzing triangular relations

(289) In other words, instead of altering cameral rules so as to reinforce their chamber's constitutional role as advisor and consenter to executive branch appointments, (290) these Senators wish to surrender still more of that role.

Congress's Constitution

To address this problem, De Wispelaere suggests that would-be donors name a "second consenter," perhaps a spouse or a family friend, who would function as a living advocate for fulfilling the donor's wishes.

Organ tax credits: markets in guts