Who is silent consents

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Username Please enter your Username. Password Please enter your Password. Improve this question. Paul Wagland Paul Wagland 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. Qui tacet consentit — Daniel. Daniel, if you made an answer out of that, I would vote it up! Per Daniel's comment: The phrase "tacit consent" pretty much covers the intended meaning. Also, "speak now or forever hold your peace," from the standard wedding ceremony is similar.

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JeffSahol JeffSahol Or "unless someone objects" Add a comment. Speak now or forever hold your peace. Plastic Sturgeon Plastic Sturgeon 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. BlueRaja: I doubt the first occurence of Speak now or forever hold Probably adding a "May" or "Please" in front would look better? This is too tied to the wedding ceremony. I would be very surprise to see this idiom in a contract, or in oral speech without implying the reference to the wedding ceremony — rds.

I have used this, as an example: Dear team, I propose that we reboot the server in 5 minutes. No reply necessary. Silence is acquiescence. Michael Easter Michael Easter 2, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. I've also heard "silence is consent" which, going by Google, seems to be even more common and "silence is concurrence" which seems to be less common.

James James 2 2 bronze badges. I think this might be what you are looking for: Silence gives consent. Google it, I believe it's a direct translation of "Qui tacet consentire".

It's in classic and modern Hebrew as well. And I believe that the NGram of this version vs "silence is consent" as per above is even more telling. The French version is "Qui ne dit mot consent".

Wiktionary link : en. Uhm, where'd you get to German here? Show 3 more comments. Jay Jay More often, and of long standing, is "Silence lends assent". Well, I don't recall ever hearing "Silence lends assent", and it rates well below "silence is assent" on Google ngram.

Not to say it isn't used. Other than those, simply saying, "Your silence implies your consent" works just fine. Taciturn consent? Surely you mean tacit consent?