Comments by "Fumble_ Brewski" (@fumble_brewski5410) on "Steve Lehto"
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Latin: "qui tacet consentire videtur" , "he who is silent is taken to agree", or "silence implies/means consent." Of course, silence didn't help Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, when he was put on trial for high treason, for not consenting publicly to the legality of King Henry VIII's desire to put away his queen and marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn. Sir Thomas More correctly asserted that the maxim is “Qui tacet consentiret”: the maxim of the law is “Silence gives consent.” That is, if the court were to construe anything by More's silence, it must construe that he consented to the king's actions, rather than denying them. Alas, poor Sir Thomas (the jury having deliberated for a mere 15 minutes), was still found guilty of high treason, condemned and beheaded on 6 July 1535 just north of the Tower of London. The moral of the story is what you don't say can be just as incriminating as what you do say.
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