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|reasons=Judge Woolsey: A promise to pay a person for past co-habitation, or a non-marital sexual relationship, is void for lack of consideration. | |reasons=Judge Woolsey: A promise to pay a person for past co-habitation, or a non-marital sexual relationship, is void for lack of consideration. | ||
Judge Woolsey: Past romance cannot be regarded as consideration. Greene's | Judge Woolsey: Past romance cannot be regarded as consideration. Greene's promise was gratuitous & can't be legally enforced. | ||
Judge Woolsey: The legality of the adulterous affair in the 1920s had no bearing on the judge's opinion. | Judge Woolsey: The legality of the adulterous affair in the 1920s had no bearing on the judge's opinion. |