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 | Charles Thomas Wortham - Civil procedure - 1916 - 458 pages
...Currie v. Misa, LR 10 Exch. 162, as follows : "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." Knowlton's... | |
 | William Fenton Myers - New York (State) - 1918 - 560 pages
...pecuniary, consideration is quite generally understood to mean a money consideration, but may and does also 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. Such... | |
 | Samuel Williston - Contracts - 1920 - 1190 pages
...elaborate definition given in Currie v. Misa,59 "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 - 1920 - 1260 pages
...other parties would constitute consideration for the agreement. The consideration, as we know, 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. That... | |
 | Paul Vinogradoff - Customary law - 1920 - 452 pages
...agreements not made by deed under seal. "A valuable consideration in the sense of the law may consist 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. '... | |
 | Benjamin Russell - Bills of exchange - 1921 - 644 pages
...many kinds of what the law calls consideration. 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, or loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the other."... | |
 | Burnett, Howard D. - Bar examinations - 1922 - 438 pages
...consideration is the only kind recognized in Ohio. "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."... | |
 | United States - 1935 - 190 pages
...Mesa,25 the court said, referring to consideration : 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.... | |
 | Gerald William Jamieson - Bank management - 1925 - 232 pages
...it means a "valuable" consideration, that is, something having value in the eye of the law. It 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. If,... | |
 | William Henry Anger, Harry Dell Anger - Commercial law - 1926 - 456 pages
...contract agree to be bound. As is well defined, " 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." 2... | |
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