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Executed Consideration

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

A consideration performed prior to the promise upon which it is founded, and which, to be valid, must have been at the precedent request of the promiser. As if I bail a man's servant, at the master's request, and the latter afterwards promises to indemnify me; this is an executed consideration.

2 Steph. Com. 113.