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These rights include mutual rights of companionship, support, comfort, sexual relations, affection, joint property...</span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <span class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/wex/consent">consent</a></h2> </span> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <span class="field-content"><p dir="ltr">Consent means that a person voluntarily and willfully agrees in response to another person's proposition. The person who consents must possess sufficient mental capacity. Consent also requires the absence of coercion, fraud or error. 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Lawmakers and judges can decide to make things constructively true so that the intent of the laws cannot be easily thwarted by a loophole or lack...</span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <span class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/wex/constructive_discharge">constructive discharge</a></h2> </span> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <span class="field-content"><p dir="ltr">Constructive discharge occurs when an employee quits their job in response to working conditions that are so poor that no reasonable person would stay. Like other “constructive” variants, constructive discharge functions in the eyes of the...</span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <span class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/wex/constructive_eviction">constructive eviction</a></h2> </span> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <span class="field-content"><p dir="ltr">Constructive evictions occur when a landlord does not physically or legally evict a tenant but takes actions that interfere with the tenant's use and enjoyment of the premises significantly enough to constitute “eviction in fact.” The...</span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <span class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/wex/contingency_fee">contingency fee</a></h2> </span> <div class="views-field views-field-body"> <span class="field-content"><p dir="ltr">A contingency fee is a form of payment to a lawyer for their legal services. 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