Legal Definition and Related Resources of Voluntary

Without compulsion; in the absence of fear or prejudice or hope of advantage held out by persons in authority. Lack or inadequacy of consideration. Also, an act done knowingly, wilfully.

Willingly; done with one’s consent; negligently. Wolff. § 5.

adjective

• conative
• deliberate
• designed
• discretionary
• effected by choice
• elective
• facultative
• free
• intended
• intentional
• offered
• optional
• purposeful
• selfwilled
• unaccidental
• unbidden
• uncoerced
• uncompelled
• unconstrained
• unforced
• unprompted
• unrestrained
• volens
• volitient
• volitional
• volitionary
• voluntarins
• willful
• without compulsion
• without constraint Associated Concepts: voluntary abandonment
• voluntary acceptance
• voluntary act
• voluntary agreement
• voluntary appearance
• voluntary assignment
• voluntary confession
• voluntary conveyance
• voluntary discontinuance
• voluntary dismissal
• voluntary exposure
• voluntary gift
• voluntary grant
• voluntary homocide
• voluntary manslaughter
• voluntary partition
• voluntary payment
• voluntary petition in bankruptcy
• voluntary retirement
• voluntary separation
• voluntary statement
• voluntary suspension
• voluntary testimony
• voluntary trust
• voluntary waste

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Voluntary in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

In accordance with one’s own free will; without constraint or compulsion; spontaneous; free; chosen, intended; allowed, suffered.

Note: This legal definition of Voluntary in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Voluntary in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of voluntary.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• voluntary in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• voluntary in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis