The phrase "act of consent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or agreement is being discussed, particularly in legal, ethical, or interpersonal situations.
Example: "The act of consent is crucial in ensuring that all parties involved are in agreement before proceeding with the project."
Alternatives: "granting of consent" or "expression of consent".
The sense of impunity with which this woman can sit on the UN and say that FGM is an act of consent.
The GMB union challenged the claim that donations to the Tory party follow a conscious act of consent by company shareholders.
Although Prince Friso was a member of the Dutch royal family, he had relinquished his membership in the Dutch royal house in 2004 when he married without having secured an act of consent.
They consistently serve "as an intrinsic part of our global order and have been considered legally binding". International agreements are transformed from a piece of paper, or most likely a sum of papers, meetings, phone calls, and other communications, into a binding law is the formal agreement made by countries through an act of consent.
From Petruchio's animals and Kate's laundry to Hamlet's friends and Caliban's childhood, Lupton here restages thinking in Shakespeare as an embodied act of consent, cure, and care.
Locke thinks that the right to rule of an authority must be traced back to an original act of consent in the state of nature (where there is no prior political authority) to form a political body.
But perhaps more importantly is the assumption that bribery is an act of consenting adults and is a victimless crime.
Consent is not mere consensus or approval; it is a performative commitment that undertakes an obligation through the very act of consenting.
On this account, the acts of voting, for example, are also acts of consent to the outcome of the voting.
Most theorists, he observes, maintain that putative acts of consent are void if it would be wrong to consent to someone's authority.
What really matters, therefore, is not previous acts of consent but the quality of the present government, whether it corresponds to what natural law requires.
