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  2. Consideration under American law - Wikipedia

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    Thus whether $1.00 is consideration does not depend on the benefit received but whether the $1.00 had actually been bargained for. In some [clarification needed] jurisdictions, contracts calling for such nominal or "peppercorn" consideration will be upheld unless a particular contract is deemed unconscionable.

  3. Copeland's method - Wikipedia

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    1 if more voters strictly prefer candidate i to candidate j than prefer j to i ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ if the numbers are equal; 0 if more voters prefer j to i than prefer i to j. This may be called the "1/ 1 ⁄ 2 /0" method (one number for wins, ties, and losses, respectively). By convention, r ii is 0. The Copeland score for candidate i is the sum ...

  4. Copeland v Greenhalf - Wikipedia

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    Copeland v Greenhalf [1952] Ch 488 is an English property law case establishing that excessive use of another's land cannot be granted by way of an easement. The defendant claimed that he held a prescriptive right to leave an unlimited number of cars on his neighbour's land, by way of such a right having existed for some fifty years previously.

  5. Consideration - Wikipedia

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    Consideration is a concept of English common law and is a necessity for simple contracts but not for special contracts (contracts by deed). The concept has been adopted by other common law jurisdictions. The court in Currie v Misa [1] declared consideration to be a "Right, Interest, Profit, Benefit, or Forbearance, Detriment, Loss ...

  6. Objection to the consideration of a question - Wikipedia

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    In parliamentary procedure, an objection to the consideration of a question is a motion that is adopted to prevent an original main motion from coming before the assembly. This motion is different from an objection to a unanimous consent request.

  7. Consideration in English law - Wikipedia

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    According to Currie v Misa, [1] consideration for a particular promise exists where some right, interest, profit or benefit accrues (or will accrue) to the promisor as a direct result of some forbearance, detriment, loss or responsibility that has been given, suffered or undertaken by the promisee. Forbearance to act amounts to consideration ...

  8. Pre-existing duty rule - Wikipedia

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    The leading case is Stilk v Myrick (1809), [3] where a captain promised 8 crew the wages of two deserters provided the remainders completed the voyage. The shipowner refused to honour the agreement; the court deemed the eight crew were unable to enforce the deal as they had an existing obligation to sail the ship and meet "ordinary foreseeable emergencies".

  9. Independence of irrelevant alternatives - Wikipedia

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    For example, the decoy effect shows that inserting a $5 medium soda between a $3 small and $5.10 large can make customers perceive the large as a better deal (because it's "only 10 cents more than the medium"). Behavioral economics introduces models that weaken or remove many assumptions of consumer rationality, including IIA. This provides ...