Natural Affection
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
The affection which a husband, a father, a brother, or other near relative, naturally feels towards those who are so nearly allied to him, sometimes supplies the place of a valuable consideration in contracts: if a father should covenant without any other consideration to stand seised to- the use of his child, the naming him to be of kin implies the consideration of natural affection, whereupon such use will arise.
Carth. 138; Dane’s Ab. Index, h. t.