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The Willful Act

Regarding one's actions the axioms apply:

  • An act done by me, against my will, is not my act.1
  • An act does not render a person guilty, unless the mind is guilty.2
  • It is the same thing to commit an act as not to prohibit it, when it is in your power.3

These precepts of Law distill the intent to perform an act as a matter of will; one's motive. If there is no will, no personal act, no accommodation for another's act, then the act is unauthentic. If an act is beyond the ability of a person to prevent, he is neither culpable nor responsible to retract it.

For a person to retract an action, not his own, would be voluntary and considered an unfettered courtesy.

 References:

  1. Actus me invito factus non est meus actus.
  2. Actus not facit reum, nisi mens sit rea.
  3. Idem est facere, et non prohibere cum possis. 

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