Example sentences of "[be] no consideration for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case , there being no consideration for the discharge of the balance of the debt , it was held that the creditor could retain the money , and sue for the balance . |
| 2 | Such would obviously be so in the case of a binding compromise ; but even where there is no consideration for the payment , it may have been made to close the transaction and so be irrecoverable . |
| 3 | It is then argued , that , this being so , there is no consideration for the agreement at all , and that it is an agreement for a voluntary gift on certain conditions ; but , looking at the agreement , we find , not a mere proviso , but an express agreement by the plaintiff to pay £1 towards a certain ground-rent , which apparently has been for the first time apportioned , and to pay it to the defendant , who is , I presume , liable to the whole ground-rent . |
| 4 | Lord Coke lays it down broadly that the staying of an action that has been unjustly brought is no consideration for a promise to pay money . |
| 5 | Ah , but that 's no consideration for the cook then is it ? |
| 6 | Ltd. v. Conservators of the River Thames ( 1899 ) 15 T.L.R. 474 Phillimore J. held that the steamship company was entitled to recover a charge for making use of the conservators ' pier facilities which was greater than that authorised by statute , the ground being simply that there was no consideration for the payment without any further reasoning . |
| 7 | But a formidable argument has been developed in recent years by leading academic lawyers that this stream of authority should be the subject of reinterpretation to reveal a different line of thought pointing to the conclusion that money paid to a public authority pursuant to an ultra vires demand should be repayable , without the necessity of establishing compulsion , on the simple ground that there was no consideration for the payment . |
| 8 | Ltd. v. Conservators of the River Thames , 15 T.L.R. 474 , improper charges levied for use of a pier were held by Phillimore J. to be recoverable on the ground that the charges being illegal there was no consideration for the payment made . |
| 9 | Ltd. v. Conservators of the River Thames , 15 T.L.R. 474 , Phillimore J. founded his decision on the fact that there was no consideration for the payment . |
| 10 | Inter alia , it was argued before the Court of Appeal that there was no assignment of a share to Casey because there was no consideration for the agreement contained in the letter . |
| 11 | The plaintiff demurred that there was no consideration for the agreement between the deceased and the defendant . |
| 12 | The defendant demurred on the ground that there was no consideration for the promise . |
| 13 | said that if the defendants were doing no more than perform an obligation already cast upon them by law there was no consideration for the plaintiffs agreement not to sue . |
| 14 | The husband disputes the claim , on the ground that there was no consideration for his promise . |
| 15 | The defence to the action was that there was no consideration for the promise of payment , it being the duty of the county council to supply police protection ; there was also a counterclaim for £1,330 4s. , the cost of feeding and housing the police supplied . |
| 16 | Fourth plea , that the plaintiff 's marriage with Ellen Nicholl had been arranged before the alleged agreement without any request from the testator and that there was no consideration for the alleged agreement . |
| 17 | 353 ) the Court of Exchequer Chamber held that a promise by A to pay existing debts that he owed B was no consideration for a promise by C. Lord Abinger C.B. said : ‘ Now a consideration to support a promise must either operate to the advantage of the party making the promise , or to the detriment of the party who is to perform the consideration . |
| 18 | There was no consideration for the ulterior pay promised to the mariners who remained with the ship . |
| 19 | The defence was that there was no consideration for the promise because the plaintiff was bound by his existing contract to assist in sailing the ship . |
| 20 | Accordingly there was no consideration for the owner 's agreement to pay the further 10 per cent. , since the yard were already contractually bound to build the ship and it is common ground that the devaluation of the dollar had in no way lessened the yard 's legal obligation to do this . |
| 21 | If they were wrong about that , they agreed that there was no consideration for a promise to forgo the interest . |
| 22 | The defendants denied the agreement and pleaded that , if it were made , there was no consideration for making it . |