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consideration for a legislative contract

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Definitions from Case Law

From 75 U.S. 430 - Home of the Friendless v. Rouse · 1869Most cited · 78 citing opinions

There is no necessity of looking for the consideration for a legislative contract outside of the objects for which the corporation was created. These objects were deemed by the legislature to be beneficial to the community, and this benefit constitutes the consideration for the contract, and no other is required to support it.

How often courts cite the case defining “consideration for a legislative contract”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “consideration for a legislative contract” — 76 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.