Assent in United States
Assent Definition
Approval of something done. An undertaking to do something in compliance with a request. In strictness, “assent” is to be distinguished from “consent,” which denotes a willingness that something about to be done be done; “acceptance,” compliance with, or receipt of, something offered; “ratification,” rendering valid something done without authority; and “approval,” an expression of satisfaction with some act done for the benefit of another besides the party approving. But in practice the term is often used in the sense of acceptance and approval. Thus, an offer is said to be assented to, although properly an offer and acceptance complete an agreement. It is apprehended that this confusion has arisen from the fact that a request, assent, and concurrence of the party requesting complete a contract as fully as an offer and acceptance. Thus, it is said there must be a request on one side, and assent on the other, in every contract (5 Bing. N. C. 75), and this assent be comes a promise enforceable by the party requesting, when he has done anything to entitle him to the right. Assent thus becomes in reality (so far as it is assent merely, and not acceptance) an offer made in response to a request. Assent and approval as applied to acts of parliament and of congress, have become confounded, from the fact that the bills of parliament were originally requests from parliament to the king. See 1 Bl. Comm. 183. Express assent is that which is openly declared. Implied assent is that which is presumed by law.
Assent in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias
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| Assent | Assent in the World Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Assent | Assent in the European Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Assent | Assent in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Assent | Assent in the UK Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Assent | Assent in the Australian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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| Assent | Assent in the Family Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the IP Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Commercial Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Criminal Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Antritrust Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Bankruptcy Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Constitutional Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Tax Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the and Finance and Banking Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Employment and Labor Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Personal Injury and Tort Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Assent | Assent in the Environmental Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
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Approval of something done. An undertaking to do something in compliance with a request. In strictness, “assent” is to be distinguished from “consent,” which denotes a willingness that something about to be done be done; “acceptance,” compliance with, or receipt of, something offered; “ratification,” rendering valid something done without authority; and “approval,” an expression of satisfaction with some act done for the benefit of another besides the party approving. But in practice the term is often used in the sense of acceptance and approval. Thus, an offer is said to be assented to, although properly an offer and acceptance complete an agreement. It is apprehended that this confusion has arisen from the fact that a request, assent, and concurrence of the party requesting complete a contract as fully as an offer and acceptance. Thus, it is said there must be a request on one side, and assent on the other, in every contract (5 Bing. N. C. 75), and this assent be comes a promise enforceable by the party requesting, when he has done anything to entitle him to the right. Assent thus becomes in reality (so far as it is assent merely, and not acceptance) an offer made in response to a request. Assent and approval as applied to acts of parliament and of congress, have become confounded, from the fact that the bills of parliament were originally requests from parliament to the king. See 1 Bl. Comm. 183. Express assent is that which is openly declared. Implied assent is that which is presumed by law.
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