meritorious consideration

meritorious consideration
A consideration for a promise confined to three duties, that of charity, that of paying one's creditors, and that of maintaining a wife and children. Fischer v Union Trust Co. 138 Mich 612, 101 NW 852. A good consideration of natural love and affection, of love and affection based on kindred by blood and marriage. Williston, Contracts 3d ed § 110.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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