valuable consideration

English

Noun

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.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     a purchasor for a valuable consideration, without notice, might hold the land discharged of any trust or confidence .

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)