Abstract

This chapter examines the role of the doctrine of consideration in the emergence of the action of assumpsit in England. It establishes the time at which the action of assumpsit became associated with the doctrine of consideration and discusses the essential features of the doctrine during the 16th and 17th centuries. It discusses the details of the earliest example of a case involving assumpsit and the doctrine of consideration in 1549.

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