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  2. Consideration under American law - Wikipedia

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    The traditional notion that courts won't look into the adequacy of consideration, an ancient notion in the English common law, doesn't square with the benefit-detriment theory (in which courts are implicitly analyzing if the parties are receiving a sufficient benefit) but does square with the bargain theory (in which only the subjective ...

  3. Consideration - Wikipedia

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    Consideration must be an act, abstinence or forbearance or a returned promise. Consideration may be past, present or future. Past consideration is not consideration according to English law. However it is a consideration as per Indian law. Example of past consideration is, A renders some service to B at latter's desire.

  4. Consideration in English law - Wikipedia

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    Consideration is an English common law concept within the law of contract, and is a necessity for simple contracts (but not for special contracts by deed). The concept of consideration has been adopted by other common law jurisdictions, including in the United States .

  5. Experience curve effects - Wikipedia

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    C 1 is the cost of the first unit of production; C n is the cost of the n-th unit of production; n is the cumulative volume of production; a is the elasticity of cost with regard to output; These effects are often expressed graphically. The curve is plotted with the cumulative units produced on the horizontal axis and unit cost on the vertical ...

  6. Profit maximization - Wikipedia

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    Marginal cost and marginal revenue, depending on whether the calculus approach is taken or not, are defined as either the change in cost or revenue as each additional unit is produced or the derivative of cost or revenue with respect to the quantity of output. For instance, taking the first definition, if it costs a firm $400 to produce 5 units ...

  7. Unit cost - Wikipedia

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    The unit cost is the price incurred by a company to produce, store and sell one unit of a particular product. Unit costs include all fixed costs and all variable costs involved in production. Cost unit is a form of measurement of volume of production or service.

  8. Construction contract - Wikipedia

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    A unit cost contract or unit price contract is based on the units put in place rather than a single price. [19] Payments are calculated at a specific rate for each item such as per cubic yard for concrete times quantity put in place. "The contractor quotes an owner a price for a particular task or scope of work, though at the time of ...

  9. Peppercorn (law) - Wikipedia

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    The situation is different under contracts within civil law jurisdictions because such nominal consideration can be categorised as a disguised gift. [4] The remainder of this section is a U.S. perception, not English. However, courts will not generally inquire into the adequacy or relative value of the consideration provided by each party. [5]