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volenti non fit injuria

volenti non fit injuria definition - legal

n

Latin

The volunteer suffers no wrong; a person cannot usually sue for damages when he consented in the first place to whatever it was that caused the damages.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
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