consensus omnium

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However, at the end of his two days’ delay he came forth and, consensus omnium, achieved one of the greatest triumphs that the House of Commons ever p. 83witnessed. 

From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

It may henceforth be taken as the consensus omnium gentium, that men and women, with their children and their children's children forever, cannot rightfully be made, by human laws, chattels personal and articles of merchandise.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various