| Joseph Story - 1847 - 704 pàgines
...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 labor,... | |
| 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 - 1916 - 802 pàgines
...they 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."... | |
| Robert D. Handy, John H. Handy - 1855 - 638 pàgines
...would authorize the transfer of a note or bill, and protect the indorsee, and such consideration might consist, " either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to the party who made the contract, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, responsibility, or act, or labor,... | |
| Joseph Story - 1856 - 758 pàgines
...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 labor,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 836 pàgines
...valuable consideration in the sense of the law, as the court remarked in that case, may consist either ia some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to the one party, or some extension of time of payment, detrimen^, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 822 pàgines
...instrument ; but a valuable consideration in the sense of the law, as the court remarked in that case, may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to th'' one party, or some extension of time of payment, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered,... | |
| India, Patrick Dunlop Shaw - 1882 - 362 pàgines
...defines consideration very much in the same terms : " Valuable consideration is some right, interest or benefit, accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility suffered or undertaken by the other.3 Following this ruling and taking it, as I think it is, to be... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 1302 pàgines
...valuable consideration hi the sense of the la«r, as the court remarked in that case, may consist cither in some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to the one party, or some extension of time of payment, detriment, loss or responsibility given, suffered or undertaken by the... | |
| William Colebrooke - 1883 - 734 pàgines
...correct the following definition of consideration : " A valuable consideration, in the sense of the law, may consist either in some right, interest, profit,...responsibility, given, suffered, or undertaken by the other.1" §23. THE CONTRA RULE — THE PLEDGEE FOR AN ANTECEDENT DEBT, WITHOUT MORE, NOT A HOLDER FOR... | |
| John Bouvier - 1883 - 870 pàgines
...29 ; 12 Ga. 52 ; 24 Miss. 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... | |
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