Disbene

The disadvantage of benefits

• "He who receives the benefit should also bear the disadvantage." Cujus est commodum ejus debet esse incommodum.
• "He who derives a benefit from a thing, ought to feel the disadvantages attending it." Que sentit commodum, sentire debet et onus. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1433.
• "One cannot complain of having been deceived when he knew the fact and gave his consent." Nemo videtur fraudare eos qui sciunt, et consentiunt. Dig. 50, 17, 145.
• "No one is obliged to accept a benefit against his consent." Invito beneficium non datur. Dig. 50, 17, 69.
• "He who is silent appears to consent." Qui tacet consentire videtur. Jenk. Cent. 32.
• "But if he does not dissent he will be considered as assenting." Vide Assent.
• "It is immaterial whether a man gives his assent by words or by acts and deeds." Non refert an quis assensum suum praefert verbis, an rebus ipsis et factis. 10 Co. 52.
• "He who does not forbid what he can forbid, seems to assent." Qui non prohibit quod prohibere potest assentire videtur. 2 Inst. 305.
• "Protection draws to it subjection, subjection, protection."Protectio trahit subjectionem, subjectio projectionem. Co. Litt. 65.
• See also tables of welfare that are a snare and a trap, Covetous practices that make you merchandise and curse children.