Consideration is the central concept in the common law of contracts and is required, in most cases, for a contract to be enforceable. Consideration is...

Look up consideration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Consideration is a concept of English common law and is a necessity for simple contracts but...

mixed-law jurisdictions that combine elements of both common and civil law. Common law jurisdictions typically require contracts to include consideration in...

binding. The situation is different under contracts within civil law jurisdictions because such nominal consideration can be categorised as a disguised...

American cases interpreting their modern American descendants. Despite the presence of reception statutes, much of contemporary American common law has...

men and women can join in polygamous marriage with the other gender under Gabonese law. In practice, the right to multiple spouses is reserved for men only...

more rational consideration of the facts, and opened access to justice far more broadly. Common law is usually contrasted with the civil law system, which...

Under Indian law, consideration may be from the promisee of any other person i.e., even a stranger. This means that as long as there is consideration...

legal issue under consideration. The problem of finding cases on a particular topic was a large problem for the rapidly growing American legal system...

Equality before the law, also known as equality under the law, equality in the eyes of the law, legal equality, or legal egalitarianism, is the principle...

not to count towards consideration to support a promise (for the law does not require us to measure the adequacy of the consideration). Inconvenience sustained...

alternative to the doctrine of consideration under contract law. Only proprietary estoppel can create a cause of action in English law, though the other two can...

Political Rights". OHCHR. Retrieved 3 April 2023. "Consideration of reports submitted by states parties under article 40 of the Covenant and of country situations...

Canadian corporate law concerns the operation of corporations in Canada, which can be established under either federal or provincial authority. Federal...

In law, a minor is someone under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which demarcates an underage individual from legal adulthood. The age of...

"Indigenous peoples of the Americas". The term Amerindian, a portmanteau of "American Indian", was coined in 1902 by the American Anthropological Association...

European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel...

Equal justice under law is a phrase engraved on the West Pediment, above the front entrance of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington...

offeror's ability to revoke their offer to engage in a contract. Under the common law, consideration for the option contract is required as it is still a form...

replied that it was because they always took Murphy's law under consideration; he then summarized the law and said that in general, it meant that it was important...

law was effective in the Philippines until the American colonization of the Philippines. It was only on December 8, 1930, when it was amended, under Act...

accordance with the laws of both countries. Occasionally the length of the sentence agreed upon between the two countries is varied. Under both types of treaties...

common law, if the assignment was donative, the last assignee is the true owner of the rights. However, if the assignment was for consideration, the first...

and may be broadly referred to as "legislation" while it remains under consideration to distinguish it from other business. Legislation can have many...

motion to take from the table, under TSC, is the motion to resume consideration. Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure generally follows...

The Leahy Laws or Leahy amendments are U.S. human rights laws that prohibit the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense from providing military...

in a covenant, the common law would enforce a covenant even in the absence of consideration. In United States contract law, an implied covenant of good...

In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of businesses in order to promote...

require the consideration of internal chemical or nuclear reactions, as well as transfers of matter into or out of the system. For such considerations, thermodynamics...

"English Law: Consideration". Contract Law. Hart Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84113-237-2. Berger, Adolf (1953). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. American Philosophical...