CHAPTER 5. Consideration

Chapter 5 enacted 1872.

§§ 1605–1615 · 11 sections

• § 1605 Any benefit conferred, or agreed to be conferred, upon the promisor, by any other person, to which the promisor is not lawfully entitled, or any prejudice…
• § 1606 An existing legal obligation resting upon the promisor, or a moral obligation originating in some benefit conferred upon the promisor, or prejudice suffered by…
• § 1607 The consideration of a contract must be lawful within the meaning of Section 1667.
• § 1608 If any part of a single consideration for one or more objects, or of several considerations for a single object, is unlawful, the entire contract is void.
• § 1609 A consideration may be executed or executory, in whole or in part. In so far as it is executory it is subject to the provisions of Chapter IV of this Title.
• § 1610 When a consideration is executory, it is not indispensable that the contract should specify its amount or the means of ascertaining it. It may be left to the…
• § 1611 When a contract does not determine the amount of the consideration, nor the method by which it is to be ascertained, or when it leaves the amount thereof to…
• § 1612 Where a contract provides an exclusive method by which its consideration is to be ascertained, which method is on its face impossible of execution, the entire…
• § 1613 Where a contract provides an exclusive method by which its consideration is to be ascertained, which method appears possible on its face, but in fact is, or…
• § 1614 A written instrument is presumptive evidence of a consideration.
• § 1615 The burden of showing a want of consideration sufficient to support an instrument lies with the party seeking to invalidate or avoid it.