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Example sentences for "mutual consent"

  • By a sort of mutual consent, they too took the same direction; and, keeping the scoundrels in sight, regulated their movements as they proceeded.

  • Were I he, I should at once accept your proposition, and declare 'off by mutual consent.

  • If they both decide on weaning, by mutual consent, and after due consultation, there is no blame on them.

  • Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent, and kill not one another.

  • If two men go into business and each puts in money and they make money or don't make it, the law doesn't fix it so that they must keep together for their natural lives, but allows the firm to be dissolved by mutual consent.

  • Give them all a chance five years after the law to dissolve by mutual consent, if they want to.

  • The essence of matrimony is "mutual consent".

  • Matrimony is the legal union between two persons,--a union which is created by mutual consent: Holy Matrimony is that union sanctioned and sanctified by the Church.

  • These councils at first were only for counsel, or for agreement by way of contract or mutual consent to the particular bishops; but they degenerated into a form of government, and claimed a ruling and commanding power.

  • The pastor's consent must concur with the persons to be received: for it must be mutual consent; and as none can be a member, so none may be a pastor, against his will.

  • As to divorce, it is provided that the husband and wife may effect it by mutual consent, and its legal recognition takes the form of an entry by the registrar, no reference being necessary to the judicial authorities.

  • The provision for divorce by "mutual consent" is striking and ominous.

  • There are not many women in Japan who could refuse to become a party to the 'mutual consent' arrangement if they were convinced that they had lost their husband's affection and that he could not live comfortably with them.

  • Justin, the nephew and successor of Justinian, reaffirmed the right to divorce by mutual consent, thus abrogating the laws of his predecessors.

  • Justinian had ordained that if husband and wife separated by mutual consent, they were to be forced to spend the rest of their lives in a convent and forfeit to it one third of their goods.

  • The duration of the armistice shall be for two weeks, unless extended by mutual consent.

  • The duration of the armistice shall be for two weeks unless extended by mutual consent.

  • A treaty being a convention, mutual consent of the parties is necessary.

  • One State makes improper relations, even by mutual consent, punishable with four years in the state-prison, if the girl be under eighteen.

  • Consequently, it is not like a contract; for all contracts can be abrogated by mutual consent.

  • And this is so, although divorce is always easy and by mutual consent; a couple being able to separate at once if they are dissatisfied with each other.

  • Divorce was, however, allowed by mutual consent, and was carried out without dispute, quarrel or contradiction.

  • Divorce is by mutual consent, and a husband and wife would "rather separate than live together unharmoniously.

  • The ceremony thus consists merely in the expression of mutual consent, accompanied by the interlocking of hands, the old handfasting; but the use of the ring is not permitted.

  • A couple without children may separate by mutual consent; and "when a woman is treated with cruelty by her husband, she may put herself under the protection of another man, with the intention of becoming his wife.

  • A number of women who had held official positions in the Guild were asked (among other questions) whether or not they were in favour of divorce by mutual consent.

  • The separation from Harriet, which actually took place about the middle of July, was not arranged by mutual consent, as some authorities assert, so much as by Shelley's deliberate repudiation of his partner.

  • About the middle of June the separation actually occurred--not by mutual consent, so far as any published documents throw light upon the matter, but rather by Shelley's sudden abandonment of his wife and child.

  • Medwin, however, both assert that it was by mutual consent.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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