UNANIMIT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  UNANIMITY. The agreement of all the persons concerned in a thing in design 
  and opinion. 
       2. Generally a simple majority (q.v.) of any number of persons is 
  sufficient to do such acts as the whole number can do; for example, a 
  majority of the legislature can pass a law: but there are some cases in 
  which unanimity is required; for example, a traverse jury, composed of 


  twelve individuals, cannot decide an issue submitted to them, unless they 
  are unanimous.