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 | Joseph Story - Bills of exchange - 1847 - 704 pages
...Secondly. What, then, is a valuable consideration in the sense of the law ? It may, in general terms, be said to consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit, accruing to the party, who makes the contract, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, responsibility, or act, or... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 802 pages
...broke ground for that mill in September, 1912." "A 'valuable consideration,' in a legal sense, may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other." Words and Phrases,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Checks - 1856 - 758 pages
...Secondly. What, then, is a valuable consideration in the sense of the law? It may, in general terms, be said to consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit, accruing to the party who makes the contract, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, responsibility, or act, or... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1883 - 870 pages
...9 ; 4 111. 33 ; 5 Humphr. 19; 4 Blackf. 388; 3 CB 321 ; 4 East, 55. ' 'A valuable consideration may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other;"... | |
 | Sir William Reynell Anson - Agency (Law) - 1884 - 456 pages
...Chamber in Currie v. Misa. ' A valuable consideration in the sense LR i°. Exch. 162. of the law may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other.'... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1156 pages
...in its requirements upon him than this one. A valuable consideration, In the sense of the law, may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other. Courts... | |
 | Frederick Scott Wait - Creditors' bills - 1884 - 808 pages
...215. Moral obligations. § 207. Concerning consideration and good faith. — Consideration has been said to consist "either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility, given, suffered or undertaken... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1214 pages
...73; Simpson & Co. v. Dalí, 3 Wall. 476, 18 L. Ed. 265. "A valuable consideration has been defined to consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to the party who makes the promise, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, responsibility, act, labor,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 812 pages
...elaborate definition given in Currie v. Misa, 41 "A valuable consideration in the sense of the law may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 952 pages
...§§ 76, 77, 78, and authorities there cited. 2. A valuable consideration in the sense of the law, may consist either in some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other. Am.... | |
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