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Moral certainty

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

That degree of assurance which induces a man of sound mind to act, without doubt, upon the conclusions to which it leads. Moral consideration: the duty in morals to perform an obligation not legally enforceable, — a consideration sufficient to suppoi't an executed contract, and sufficient also to support a new promise by an infant who has become of age, a discharged bankrupt, etc.