Gates v. Herr’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘There is no consideration for a promise where no benefit is conferred upon the promisor nor detriment suffered by the promisee, and the promisor neither undertakes to do anything which he is not bound to do nor forbears to do anything which he has a right to do. . . . The detriment to the promisee which suffices as a consideration for a contract must be a detriment on entering into the contract, not from the breach of it’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thompson v. Moe