Statistics for Contract Law - Consideration

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Part payment of a debt cannot satisfy the debt however payment by other means may be able to settle it.	Pinnel's Case [1602]	100%
Performance of a legally imposed duty is not valid consideration. e.g Being subpoenaed to appear as a witness	Collins v Godefroy (1831)	50%
Performance over and above the existing legal duty may count as valid consideration.	Glasbrook Bros v Glamorgan CC [1925]	50%
Warranty made after sale of horse is invalid as no enforceable contract as to warranty due to absence of consideration.	Roscorla v Thomas (1842)	50%
Pre-existing duties cannot constitute consideration between the contracting parties in a new agreement, sailors already obliged to sail ship home.`	Stilk v Myrick (1809)	50%
A motive is different to consideration.	Thomas v Thomas (1842)	50%
If it is unclear what the consideration is it is not valid, in this case stopping complaining about something.	White v Bluett (1853)	50%
Gaining a pratical benefit or obviating a disbenefit on top of an existing contract may qualify as valid consideration, in this case involving contractors.	Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd (1991)	50%
‘it is no consideration to refrain from a course of action which it was never intended to pursue’.	Arrale v Costain Civil Engineering Ltd (1976)	0%
A subjective approach should be taken to determine benefit, this case involved the weighing of boilers.	Bainbridge v Firmstone (1838)	0%
"A peppercorn does not cease to be good consideration if it is established that the promisee does not like pepper and will throw away the corn. " - Lord Sumervell.	Chappell & Co v Nestlé Ltd (1960)	0%
Example divorce case from 1951 in which a contract was held to be unenforceable due to an absence of consideration.	Combe v Combe (1951)	0%
A promise to give up a legal claim that you have a reasonable belief in and is valid and non frivolous, is good consideration for a contract.	Cook v Wright (1861)	0%
"A valuable consideration in the sense of the law, 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 the other.	Currie v Misa (1875)	0%
Consideration of a past, separate act is not valid, in this case bringing up a child.	Eastwood v Kenyon (1840)	0%
Consideration must not be impossible, in this case a deed for a past date.	Hall v Cazenove (1804)	0%
Past consideration may be valid if someone would only do it in expectation of a reward, in this case the defendant instructed the claimant to ride to get a King's pardon.	Lampleigh v Brathwait (1615)	0%
An act done before the giving of a promise to confer some benefit can sometimes be consideration for the promise if: 1) it was at the promisor's request, 2) renumeration was expected by both parties, 3) it would have been legally enforceable if promised in advance.	Pau On v Lau Yiu Long [1980]	0%
"Consideration is really just an evidential principle, and that commercial practice can get around any supposed necessity of consideration".	Pillans v Van Mierop (1765)	0%
The same consideration can be good consideration for two contracts, as in this shipping case.	Scotston v Pegg (1861)	0%