valuable consideration

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Noun

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valuable consideration (countable and uncountable, plural valuable considerations)

  1. (law) An equivalent or compensation having value given for a thing purchased, such as money, marriage, services, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for valuable consideration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)