Sentences with phrase «voluntary act»

It must be done as the free and voluntary act of both parties.

You have, by any other voluntary act other than marriage or registration of civil partnership, acquired citizenship of another country.

Thus any idealization of the human equation or projection of it as an absolute or ultimate good becomes a voluntary act of illusion, making absolute a level of reality which is patently relative and thus insulating the characteristically human structure of personality from its sensitive frontier where it might otherwise encounter the dimension of spirit, expressive within its own structure, yet not of it.

On this view, human freedom extends to absolute mastery over one's life, a mastery which extends to being killed or assisted in suicide so long as these are voluntary acts.»

When the Son called out, it was not that He was no longer God manifest in the flesh, or that His spirit was departing, for it is not until after He cries, It is finished, and Father into Thy hands I commend my spirit, that He dismisses His spirit by a voluntary act of His own will.

Of course, there is love, and we may think of love as a voluntary act, leaving the saints theoretically free to defect; but they never do.

Creation as a voluntary act of the omnipotent Intelligence can, on the other hand, be used to undergird the empirical method which governs the new scientific approach, from the 17th century onwards.

Into whatever patient setting I enter, I will go for the benefit of the sick and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief or corruption and further from the seduction of any patient.

The need for «a voluntary act of interpretation» and «a freely offered response» protects man from total domination by God.5

Suicide is most definitely a voluntary act.

His discussion of the potential of online video to supplement or replace traditional tv advertising really got me thinking about one of the significant traits of Internet video — that watching it is a voluntary act.

It needs to tackle the huge apparatus of tax avoidance and secrecy which have turned taxation into a voluntary act for giant businesses and the super-rich.

It is not a voluntary act.

The suicide was not a voluntary act done with eyes open but an act due to his psychiatric condition.

In other words, the defence was that Corr's action in killing himself was a voluntary act.

The absence of consciousness not only precludes the existence of any specific mental state, but also excludes the possibility of a voluntary act without which there can be no criminal liability»); see also State v. Clowers, 720 S.E. 2d 430 (N.C. App.

The requirements of culpability prescribed by section 301 of this title (relating to requirement of voluntary act) and section 302 of this title (relating to general requirements of culpability) do not apply to:

As observed by Lord Justice Diplock in Marfani & Co Ltd v Midland Bank Ltd [1968] 2 All ER 573, [1968] 1 WLR 956 at 970H, «at common law, one's duty to one's neighbour who is the owner, or entitled to possession, of any goods is to refrain from doing any voluntary act in relation to his goods which is a usurpation of his proprietary or possessory rights in them.

Any plan for adoption is made solely by you and is a voluntary act.

Any plan for adoption is made solely by the birth parent and is a voluntary act.

Any adoption plan is made solely by the birth parent and is a voluntary act.

The voluntary act of transferring legal rights of the care, custody, and control of a child to any benefits, which, by law, would flow to or from the child — such as inheritance — to another family.