moral consideration

moral consideration
A consideration which is good only in conscience. The idea that in every case where a person is under a moral obligation to do an act, as to relieve one in distress by personal exertions, or to spend money, a promise to that effect would bind him in law, is not supported by principle or precedent. It is a just rule of morality, sanctioned by the highest authority that a man should do towards others what he might reasonably expect from them under like circumstances. But a promise to fulfil the moral obligation created by this rule would not be enforced in any court of justice. Municipal laws will not decide what honor and gratitude ought to induce. It must be left to the forum of conscience. Cook v Bradley, 7 Conn 57.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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