sufficient consideration

sufficient consideration
That which is actually given, suffered, or accepted for a promise, whether slight or significant, and whether reducible or not to a pecuniary value, provided it is a present consideration or within one of the judicial or statutory exceptions to the requirement of a present consideration. 17 Am J2d Contr § 92.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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