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Mutual promises, concurrent considerations, which will support each other, unless one or the other be void; in which case, there being no consideration on the one side, no contract can arise. But if the promise on one side be only voidable, as in consideration of money given or of a promise by an infant, it is sufficient.Mutual promises, however, to be obligatory, must be made simultaneously. If they be made at different times on the same day they will not be a good consideration for each other because of the want of reciprocity of obligation at the moment the contract is made, Story on Contracts...
Consideration
Consideration. Any act of the promisee (the person claiming the benefit of an obligation) from which the promisor (the person burdened with the obligation) or a stranger derives a benefit or advantage, or any labour detriment or inconvenience sustained or suffered by the promisee at the request, express or implied, of the promisor. See Laythoarp v. Bryant, 3 Scott 250; 2 Wms. Saund 137 h; Currie v. Misa, (1875) LR 10 Exch 153.Consideration is one of the facts which the courts require as evidence of intention, (a) that a person intends his promise to be binding on him, or (b) that he intends to divest himself of a beneficial interest in property. In its widest sense consideration is the price, motive or inducement for a promise or for a transfer of property from one person to another. The nature or quality of the consideration which will be sufficient for these purposes varies with the nature of the transaction and in the absence of consideration the Courts will, except in the case of s...
Compromise, Settlement
Compromise, Settlement, the expression com-promise means settlement of difference by mutual concessions. It is an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims by reciprocal modification of demands. As per Terms de la Ley, 'compromise is a mutual promise of two or more parties that are at controversy'. As per Bouvier it is 'an agreement between two or more persons, who, to avoid a law suit, amicably settle their differences, on such terms as they can agree upon'. The word 'compromise' implies some element of accommodation on each side. It is not apt to describe total surrender. A compromise is always bilateral and means mutual adjustment. 'Settlement' is termination of legal proceeding by mutual consent, State of Punjab v. Phulan Rani, (2004) 7 SCC 555 (557): AIR 2004 SC 4105. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, s. 23(3)(5)]...
Compromise
Compromise, an adjustment of claims in dispute by mutual concession; also a mutual promise of two or more parties at difference to refer the ending of their controversy to arbitrators. As to the authority of counsel to compromise an action, see Neale v. Gordon-Lennox, 1902 AC 465; and of solicitor, see Fray v. Voules, (1859) 1 E&E 839; and Macaulay v. Polley, (1897) 2 QB 122.Means settlement of difference by mutual con-cessions, State of Punjab v. Ganpat Raj, (2006) 8 SCC 364.Means settlement of difference by mutual concessions, State of Punjab v. Phulan Rani, (2004) 7 SCC 555.Compromise, between the parties means that there is some element of give and take on both sides, Ram Lakhan Chaudhary v. Haridwar Chaudhary, 2005 (12) SCC 383 [Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O. 23, r. 3]Is always bilateral and means mutual adjustment, Haryana Urban Development Augthority v. S.P. Jain, AIR 2004 SC 4105....
consideration
consideration : something (as an act or forbearance or the promise thereof) done or given by one party for the act or promise of another see also contract compare motive NOTE: Except in Louisiana, consideration is a necessary element to the creation of a contract. The consideration must result from bargaining by the parties, and must be the thing that induces the mutual promises. ad·e·quate consideration : a consideration that is reasonably equivalent in value to the thing for which it is given fair consideration : a consideration that is reasonable and given in good faith ;specif : something with a reasonably equivalent value that under the laws of fraudulent conveyances is given in good faith in exchange for the transfer of property good consideration 1 : a consideration based on a family relationship or natural love and affection 2 : valuable consideration in this entry NOTE: When used as defined in sense 1 good consideration is the opposite of valuable consider...
Betrothal
The act of betrothing or the fact of being betrothed a mutual promise engagement or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed betrothment affiance...
Sponsalia, or Stipulatio sponsalitia
Sponsalia, or Stipulatio sponsalitia, espousals; mutual promises to marry, Civ. Law....
pledge
pledge 1 : a delivery of esp. personal property as security for a debt or other obligation ;broadly : the perfection of a security interest in collateral through possession of the collateral by a creditor or other promisee 2 a : property and esp. personal property that is used as security esp. upon delivery ;broadly : a security interest in collateral compare chattel mortgage at mortgage b : a contract under which the delivery of property (as personal property) as security takes place 3 a : the state of being held as security or guaranty [property held in ] b : something given as security for the performance of an act 4 : a binding promise to do or forbear vt pledged pledg·ing 1 : to deliver or otherwise put forward as security for a debt or other obligation [pledged his car as collateral for the loan] 2 : to bind by a pledge [we mutually to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor "Declaration of Independence"] 3 : to assure or promise the performance...
Specific performance
Specific performance. Equity, in obedience to the cardinal rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on the ground that what is lawfully agreed to be done ought to be done, and that damages at law for breach of the contract are not a sufficient com-pensation. The Common Law has not recognized this principle; it has only given damages to a suffering party for the non-performance of an executory agreement. The (English) C.L.P. Act, 1854, however, imparted to the Common Law writ of mandamus a little more efficacy by provisions since superseded by s. 24 of the Judicature Act, 1873, now by Judicature Act, 1925, s. 36, and the (English) Mercantile Law Amendment Act, 1856, introduced a procedure for enforcing the specific delivery of goods sold, specially superseded by s. 52 of the (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893.An award of damages may be combined with a ...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
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