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Example sentences for "valuable consideration"

  • After using their constitutional right to purchase lieu lands, they are entitled to a profit on the investment, and besides, I must show a 'valuable consideration' or have a secret service operative trailing me.

  • A valuable consideration also is necessary to a valid contract.

  • A valuable consideration is any thing that is either a benefit to the party promising, or some trouble or injury to the party to whom the promise is made.

  • Promises which are wholly gratuitous are void; because, being neither a benefit to the promiser, nor an injury to the promisee, they are not regarded in law as a valuable consideration.

  • Did the artist receive good and valuable consideration?

  • The copyright is given to "the author and his assigns," except when the work is executed for or on behalf of any other person for a good or valuable consideration.

  • The claims, again, from which France was released, were admitted by France, and the release was for a valuable consideration, in a correspondent release of the United States from certain claims on them.

  • The idea of a release of the claims for a valuable consideration passing to the government had been exploded, and, if a liability was to be claimed on account of a failure to collect the money, upon what ground did it rest?

  • If A promises B two dollars if B will work for him next Thursday, and B promises A to work for him next Thursday, the contract is mutual, and is supported by a valuable consideration.

  • There is a valuable consideration, consisting of B's promise to pay A ten dollars.

  • All contracts, with the exception of sealed instruments, must be supported by a valuable consideration.

  • The creditor, who was to perform the third article of the contract, held twenty shillings, which was to be given for a valuable consideration.

  • This contract was founded on a valuable consideration.

  • The case will now stand clear; we owe a debt, contracted for a valuable consideration.

  • They had purchased the marquisate of Final of the late emperor for a valuable consideration, and the purchase had been guaranteed by Great Britain.

  • To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.

  • A valuable consideration, or one which will sustain a contract.

  • The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

  • Every man is bound to pursue such a business as to render a valuable consideration for that which he receives from others.

  • He receives the fruit of toil; he receives that which is of value to himself; and common equity requires that he return a valuable consideration.

  • Thus, according to official declaration, the claims of American citizens were “admitted by France,” but they were released for a valuable consideration which first inured to the benefit of the Government of the United States.

  • More than sixty years have run their course since the United States, by a public act and for a valuable consideration, became their debtor.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "valuable consideration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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