Consideration.
COnsideration is the material cause of a Contract, with∣out which no Contract can bind the party. This Consideration is either expressed, as when a man bargains to give twenty shillings for an Horse: or is im∣plied,
Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
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- Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression.
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- Rastell, John, d. 1536.
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- London :: printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft and M. Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires. For G. Walbanke, S. Heyrick, J. Place, J. Poole, and R. Sare,
- 1685.
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"Les termes de la ley; or, Certain difficult and obscure words and terms of the common laws and statutes of this realm now in use, expounded and explained Now corrected and enlarged. With very great additions throughout the whole book, never printed in any other impression." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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as when the Law it self inforces a Consideration; as if a man comes into a common Inne, and there staying some time, takes meat or lodging, or either, for himself or his horse, the Law presumes he intends to pay for both, notwithstanding that nothing be covenanted be∣tween him and his Host, and therefore if he discharges not the house, the Host may stay his horse.
Also there is Consideration of nature and blood, and Valu∣able Consideration: and there∣fore if a man be indebted to di∣vers others, and yet, in consi∣deration of natural affection, gives all his goods to his son or cousin, this shall be construed a fraudulent Gift within the Act of 13 Eliz. c. 5. because this Act intends a Valuable conside∣ration.