voluntary

Unconstrained by interference; unimpelled by another's influence; spontaneous; acting of oneself. Coker v. State, 199 Ga. 20, 33 S.E.2d 171, 174. Done by design or intention. Proceeding from the free and unrestrained will of the person. Produced in or by an act of choice. Resulting from free choice, without compulsion or solicitation. The word, especially in statutes, often implies knowledge of essential facts. Without valuable consideration; gratuitous, as a voluntary conveyance. Also, having a merely nominal consideration; as, a voluntary deed.

As to voluntary answer

- voluntary assignment

- voluntary confession

- voluntary conveyance

- voluntary deposit

- voluntary dismissal

- voluntary escape

- voluntary indebtedness

- voluntary intoxication

- voluntary manslaughter

- voluntary nonsuit

- voluntary oath

- voluntary payment

- voluntary redemption

- voluntary sale

- voluntary search

- voluntary settlement

- voluntary trust

- voluntary waste, see those titles.

For voluntary bankruptcy, see bankruptcy proceedings

@ voluntary abandonment

As statutory ground for divorce, exists if there is a final departure, without consent of other party, without sufficient reason and without intent to return. As used in adoption statute, the term "voluntarily abandoned" means a willful act or course of conduct such as would imply a conscious disregard or indifference to such child in respect to the parental obligation owed to the child. Elliott v. Maddox, Tex.Civ.App., 510 S.W.2d 105, 107.

See also abandonment

- desertion

@ voluntary bankruptcy

A bankruptcy proceeding that is initiated by the debtor.

See bankruptcy proceedings

@ voluntary courtesy

A voluntary act of kindness. An act of kindness performed by one man towards another, of the free will and inclination of the doer, without any previous request or promise of reward made by him who is the object of the courtesy; from which the law will not imply a promise of remuneration

@ voluntary discontinuance

Voluntary action on part of plaintiff, whereby his case is dismissed without decision on merits. Ferber v. Brueckl, 322 Mo. 892, 17 S.W.2d 524, 527. Fed.R.Civil P. 41(a).

See dismissal

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See voluntary dismissal; dismissal

@ voluntary exposure to unnecessary danger

An intentional act which reasonable and ordinary prudence would pronounce dangerous. Intentional exposure to unnecessary danger, implying a conscious knowledge of the danger. The voluntary doing of an act which is not necessary to be done, but which requires exposure to known danger to which one would not be exposed if unnecessary act is not done. The term implies a conscious, intentional exposure, something of which one is conscious but willing to take the risk.

See assumption of risk

@ voluntary ignorance

This exists where a party might, by taking reasonable pains, have acquired the necessary knowledge, but has neglected to do so

@ voluntary jurisdiction

In old English law, a jurisdiction exercised by certain ecclesiastical courts, in matters where there is no opposition. 3 Bl.Comm. 66.

The opposite of contentious jurisdiction (q.v.)

@ voluntary statement

A statement made that is free from duress, coercion or inducement. Metigoruk v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska App., 655 P.2d 1317, 1318

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