Sentence examples for legally consent from inspiring English sources

(Minors cannot legally consent, no matter what they feel).

Can you legally consent to a head transplant?

Under state law, an inmate cannot legally consent to sexual relations with a jailer.

"Now certainly, under the law, he is too young to legally consent," he said.

Can Spiridonov legally consent to the decapitation necessary to undergo the surgery?

In most countries, a minor cannot legally consent to sex with an adult, though laws vary.

The state should issue and recognize only civil unions between legally consenting adults, governing legal issues such as property ownership or power of attorney.

Some legal codes provide penalties as severe as life imprisonment for homosexual intercourse, even if the relations are voluntary and between legally consenting adults.

Paradoxically, letting someone lay claim to embryos that they have legally consented to discard in the event of divorce is just one small step from stopping someone from being able to freely choose what exactly happens with and to their own bodies and healthcare decisions.

After all, users may have legally consented to their data and their friends' data being harvested, but the crux of our current societal conversation is that legal agreement does not equate to informed ethical consent.

Indeed, the company's response to nearly every one of its privacy stories over the past year has been to argue that its users legally consented to its practices so they have nothing to complain about.