Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Nonconsensual
adj. Not occurring by mutual consent <nonconsensual sexual relations>.
consensual
adj. Having, expressing, or occurring with full consent. - Also termed consentaneous; consentient.
consensual contract
Hist. A contract arising from the mere consensus of the parties, without any formal or symbolic acts performed to fix the obligation. 9 Although the consensual contract was known to the common law, it originated in Roman law, where it embraced four types of contracts in which informal consent alone was sufficient: (1) an agency agreement (mandatum), (2) a partnership agreement (societas), (3) a sale (emptio venditio), or (4) a letting or hiring (locatio conductio). Cf real contract.
consensual crime
See victimless crime under CRIME.
consensual marriage
See MARRIAGE (1).