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informed consent

Consent given after being provided with fair and full disclosure of all the facts necessary to make an intelligent decision after weighing the relative pros and cons of the situation and the possibility of realistic alternatives.Real estate agents may sometimes represent both buyers and sellers in the same transaction if all parties agree after informed consent.

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25) Factual consent constitutes legal consent when it is given under circumstances that would provide a "complete or partial criminal defense[]" to another individual (hereinafter "A" for actor) having done some act to S.
Morality-based legislation is alive and well: why the law permits consent to body modification but not sadomasochistic sex
Part III concludes the book by revisiting decisions and doctrines previously discussed in the text so as to summarize ways in which courts have perpetrated and perpetuated doctrinal confusions by conflating concepts of factual consent with concepts of legal consent.
The Logic of Consent: The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct
Statutory rape is non-forced, mutually consenting intercourse where the state has declared an inappropriate age discrepancy between partners and denied legal consent.
Rape, statutory rape, and child abuse: legal distinctions and counselor duties
As a result we have decided not to dispense to those under the age of 16 - the age of legal consent.
Supermarket says no to morning-after pill scheme
Mounting the legal challenge, the Foundation for Children, Youth, and the Law staged a successful campaign to lower the Canadian age of legal consent for homosexual acts to 14.
The "emancipated" child: the UN aims to free children from parental authority and make them wards of the state, a move that will abolish the family and leave children vulnerable to sexual exploitation. (Child Grab)
At issue is a provision which the neurologists say means the exclusion from trials of adults who are not able to give legal consent, unless the product will be of direct benefit to the patient.
PHARMACEUTICALS: CLINICAL TRIALS DIRECTIVE FINALISED - BUT OPPOSITION EMERGES
Those scholars who emphasize legal consent generally limit their discussion to issues surrounding the need to protect patients from "fraudulent misrepresentation"; that is, to whether the patient was well enough informed to have given a true and valid consent to the procedure.
Risk, autonomy, and responsibility: informed consent for prenatal testing
However, despite the legal consent and the successful experiences of some municipalities in cooperating with the private sector, this fiscal resource remains under-utilized.
Lebanese municipalities need to attract capital for development
Your entry in the Register provides legal consent for the donation of your organs.
Let family know your wish to donate
Hutchison married Courtney Stodden when she was only 16 years old after she got legal consent from her parents to enter a "pure union" with the actor.
Doug Hutchison Called 'Child Molester' On 'Couple's Therapy' For Marrying Courtney Stodden [VIDEO]
Thirteen, however, is below the age of legal consent in Oregon.
Coos D.A.'s teenage son gets probation in sex case
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