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fent; to allow ; to admit: with to. —In this we confent 
unto you, if ye will be as we be. Genefis. 
Ye comets fcourge the bad revolting ftars 
That have confcntcd unto Henry’s death. Shakefpearc. 
CONSE'NT,/ inlaw, is the neccffary acquiefcence 
of certain parties t the terms of a deed, leafe, &c. there¬ 
fore in all cafes when any thing executory is created by 
deed, it may, by confent of all perfons that were parties 
to the creation of it by their deed, be defeated and an¬ 
nulled, and hence it was faid, that warranties, recogni¬ 
zances, rents, charges, annuities, covenants, leafes for 
years, ufes at common law, &c. may, by a defeasance 
made with the mutual confent of all that were parties to 
the creation of them by deed, be annulled, difcharged, 
and defeated. iRcp. 113. A confent cx poji faBo is not 
of any fignification ; for it cannot be had for things which 
cannot be otherwife, Mod. 312. The confent of the heir 
makes good a void devife. Chan. Cafes, Trin. 23 Car. II. 
Lord Cornbury v. Middleton. Conf ent of remainder-man 
for life, though but verbal, is binding, and decreed to 
confirm building leafes accordingly. 2 Chan. Cajes, 28 ; 
Sidney v. The earl of Leicefter. Confent to a trial of a 
title to land in another county than where the land lies 
will not help, it being an error, though fuch confent be 
of record. 2 Show. 98, Lord Clare v. Reach. A burgefs 
of a corporation confenting to be turned out from his 
burgefs’s place, and the common council of the corpora- 
ration removing him accordingly, does not amount to a 
refignation; and a peremptory mandamus was granted to 
reftore him. Holt, 450; Mayor of Gloucefter’s cafe. 
CONSENTA'NEOUS, adj. [confent aneus, Lat.] Agree¬ 
able to ; confiftent with.—In the picture of Abraham 
facrificing his fon, Ifaac is defcribed a little boy ; which 
is not cunjcntancous unto the circumftance of the text. 
Brozun. 
CONSENTA'NEOUSLY, adv. Agreeably ; confif- 
tently j fuitably.—Paracelfus did not always write fo 
oonfentancoujly to himfelf, that his opinions were confi¬ 
dently to be collected from every place of his writings, 
where he feems to cxprefs it. Boyle. 
CONSENTA'NEQUSNESS, f. Agreement; confif- 
tence. 
CONSEN'TES,_/l The name which the Romans gave 
to the twelve fuperior gods, the diimajorumgentium, whom 
Ennius thus enumerates: 
Juno, Vijla, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, 
Mercurius, Jovi, Neplunus, Vulcanus , Apollo. 
CONSEN'TIENT, adj. [confentiens, Lat.] Agreeing; 
united in opinion ; not differing in fentiment.—The au¬ 
thority due to the confcntient judgment and practice of the 
univerfal church. Oxford Reafons againjl the Covenant. 
CON'SEQUENCE,y; [confequeniia, Lat.] That which 
follows from any caufe or principle. Event; effeCt of a 
caufe: 
Shun the bitter confequence ; for know, 
The day thou eateft thereof, thou firalt die. Milton. 
Propofition collected from the agreement of other pre¬ 
vious propofitions; deduction; conclufion.—It is no good 
confequence, that reafon aims at our being happy, therefore 
it forbids all voluntary fufferings. Decay of Piety .—The 
•laft propofition of a fyllogifm : as, what is commanded by 
our Saviour is our duty ; prayer is commanded, conf. therefore 
prayer is our duty : 
Can fyllogifm fet things right ? 
No, majors foon with minors fight: 
Or, both in friendly confort join’d. 
The confequence limps falfe behind. Prior. 
Concatenation of caufes and effect's ; confecution.—Sor¬ 
row being the natural and direCt offer of fin, that which 
firft brought fin into the world, mud, by neceffary confe¬ 
quence, bring in forrow too. South .—That which produces 
confequences; influence; tendency,—Afferted without 
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any colour of feripture-proof, it is of very ill confequence to 
the fiuperftruCting of good life. Hammond.-— Importance ; 
moment.—The anger of Achilles was of fuch cmj'cquence , 
that it embroiled the kings of Greece. AddiJ'oti. 
Tire inftruments of darknefs 
Win us with honeft trifles, to betray us 
In deepeft confequence. Shahrfpcare. 
CON'SEQUENT, adj. [conf quens, Lat.] Following by 
rational deduction. Following as the effeCt of a caufe : 
with to .—It was not a power poflible to Ve inherited, be- 
caufe the right was confequent to, and built on, an act per¬ 
fectly perfonal. Locke _Sometimes with upon .—This fa- 
tisfaCtion or diffatisfaCtion, confequent upon a man’s acting 
fuitably or unfuitably to confidence, is a principle not 
eafily to be worn out. South. 
CON'SEQUENT,/! Confequence; that which follows 
from previous propofitions by a rational deduction.—• 
Doth it follow that they, being not the people of God, 
are in nothing to be followed ? This confequent were good, 
if only the cuftom of the people of God is to be cbferved. 
Hooker. —EffeCt; that which follows an acting caufe.—. 
They were ill paid ; and they were ill governed, which 
is always a confequent of ill payment. Davies. 
CONSEQUEN'TIAL, adj. Produced by the neceffary 
concatenation of effeCts to caufes : 
We fometimes wrangle when we (liould debate; 
A confequential ill which freedom draws; 
A bad effeCt, but from a noble caufe. Prior. 
Having the confequences juffly connected with the pre- 
mifes • conclufive.—Though thefe kind of arguments 
may feem obfeure ; yet, upon a due confideration of 
them, they are highly confequential and concludent to my 
purpofe. Hale. 
CONSEQUENTIAL DA'MAGES. It is a funda, 
mental principle in law and reafon, that he who does the 
firft wrong fliall anfwer for all confequential damages. 
12 Mod. 639, Rofwell v. Prior ; but this admits of limi¬ 
tation. Though a man does a lawful thing, yet if any 
damage do thereby befal another, he filial 1 anfwer if he 
could have avoided it; and this holds in all civil cafes. 
As if a man lops a tree, and the boughs fall upon ano¬ 
ther ipfo invito, yet an aCtion lies. So if a man llioots at 
butts, and hurts another unawares. So if I have land 
through which a river runs to your mill, and I lop the 
fallows growing on the river fide which accidentally flop 
the water fo as your mill is hindred. So if I am build¬ 
ing my own lioufe, and a piece of timber falls on my 
neighbour’s houfe and breaks part of it. So if a man 
aflaults me, and I lift up my ftaff to defend myfelf, and 
ftrike another in lifting it up ; but it is otherwife in cri¬ 
minal cafes, for there aBus non facit renin nifi mens ft rca. 
Raym. 422. If I have a pond, I cannot fo let it out that 
it ftiall drown my neighbour's land. If a ftranger drive 
my cattle upon your land, whereby they are diftrained by 
you,, I ftiall recover againff the ftranger for this diftrefis 
by you. Lane, 67. A fmith pricks the horfe of a fervant, 
being on his journey to pay money for his mafter to fave 
the penalty of a bond, both the mafter and fervant may 
have their feveral actions on the cafe, for the feveral wrongs 
they may have thereby fuftained ; per Coke, chief juftice. 
2 Bulfl. 344. Where one is party to a fraud, all which 
follows by reafon of that fraud, fliall be laid as done by 
him. Cro. J. 469. ACfion lies for threatening workmen 
to maim and profecute them, whereby the mafter lofes 
the felling of his goods, the men not daring to go on with 
their work. Cro. J. 567, Garret v. Taylor. A. breaks the 
fence of B. by which cattle get into C.’s ground; C. 
Ihall have cafe againff A. but not trefpafs. Per Roll. Sty. 
131, Cowper v. St. John. If A. beats my horfe by which 
he runs on B. A. is the trefpaffer. 2 Salk. 6 31. He that 
makes a fire in his field muff fee that it does no harm, 
and anfwer the damage if it does ; but if a fudden ftorra 
rifeth which he cannot flop, it is a matter of evidence, 
and 
