consensus ad idem en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin consensus ad idem (“agreement to the same thing”). In English, first attested in 1864.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Agreement about the terms and subject matter of a contract between all involved parties.
From my reading, the courts originally decided in Lynn's favour because the two parties did not have "consensus ad idem." That is that there wasn't a common understanding.
2006 September 8, Mike Taylor, “Letter to Rotary Club”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, published 2006, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2023: