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Voluntary escape






Voluntary escape

The giving to a prisoner voluntarily, any liberty not authorized by law.

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Prisoner
One held in confinement against his will.

Liberty
Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature. Liberty is divided into civil, natural, personal, and political.

Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.



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Voluntary
Willingly; done with one's consent; negligently.

Voluntary bankruptcy
A proceeding by which a debtor voluntarily asks for a discharge of his debts under the Bankruptcy Code.

Voluntary departure
The departure of an alien from the United States without an order of removal. The departure may or may not have been preceded by a hearing before an immigration judge. An alien allowed to voluntarily depart concedes removability but does not have a bar to seeking admission at a port-of-entry at any time. Failure to depart within the time granted results in a fine and a ten-year bar to several forms of relief from deportation.

Voluntary deposit
Civil law. One which is made by the mere consent or agreement of the parties.

Voluntary jurisdiction
In the ecclesiastical law, jurisdiction is either contentious jurisdiction, or voluntary jurisdiction. By the latter term is understood that kind of jurisdiction which requires no judicial proceedings, as, the granting letters of administration and receiving the probate of wills.

Voluntary nonsuit
Practice. The abandonment of his cause by a plaintiff, and an agreement that a judgment for costs be entered against him.

Voluntary sale
Contracts. One made freely, without constraint, by the owner of the thing and old.

Voluntary waste
That which is either active or wilful, in contradistinction to that which arises from mere negligence, which is called permissive waste.

Volunteers
"1) Contracts. Persons who receive a voluntary conveyance 2) Army. Persons who in time of war offer their services to their country and march in its defence.



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Volenti non fit injuria
Voluntary assumption of risk. A defence in tort that means where a person engages in an event accepting and aware of the risks inherent in that event, then they can not later complain of, or seek compensation for an injury suffered during the event. This is used most often to defend against tort actions as a result of a sports injury.

Voluntary
Willingly; done with one's consent; negligently.

Voluntary bankruptcy
A proceeding by which a debtor voluntarily asks for a discharge of his debts under the Bankruptcy Code.

Voluntary departure
The departure of an alien from the United States without an order of removal. The departure may or may not have been preceded by a hearing before an immigration judge. An alien allowed to voluntarily depart concedes removability but does not have a bar to seeking admission at a port-of-entry at any time. Failure to depart within the time granted results in a fine and a ten-year bar to several forms of relief from deportation.

Voluntary deposit
Civil law. One which is made by the mere consent or agreement of the parties.

Voluntary escape

Voluntary jurisdiction
In the ecclesiastical law, jurisdiction is either contentious jurisdiction, or voluntary jurisdiction. By the latter term is understood that kind of jurisdiction which requires no judicial proceedings, as, the granting letters of administration and receiving the probate of wills.

Voluntary nonsuit
Practice. The abandonment of his cause by a plaintiff, and an agreement that a judgment for costs be entered against him.

Voluntary sale
Contracts. One made freely, without constraint, by the owner of the thing and old.

Voluntary waste
That which is either active or wilful, in contradistinction to that which arises from mere negligence, which is called permissive waste.

Volunteers
"1) Contracts. Persons who receive a voluntary conveyance 2) Army. Persons who in time of war offer their services to their country and march in its defence.

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