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Whether legally binding consideration exists when a promise is made with a moral intent, but no other actual consideration exists. | Whether legally binding consideration exists when a promise is made with a moral intent, but no other actual consideration exists. | ||
|holding=Chief Justice Parker: A promise based on moral obligation, but lacking legal consideration or a pre-existing legal duty, is not enforceable. | |holding=Chief Justice Parker: A promise based on moral obligation, but lacking legal consideration or a pre-existing legal duty, is not enforceable. | ||
|reasons=The general position that moral obligation is a sufficient consideration for an express promise, is to be limited in its application, to cases where at some time or other a good or valuable consideration has existed. | |reasons=The general position that moral obligation is a sufficient consideration for an express promise, is to be limited in its application, to cases where at some time or other a good or valuable consideration has existed. | ||
|case_text_links={{Infobox Case Brief/Case Text Link | |case_text_links={{Infobox Case Brief/Case Text Link | ||
|link=https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman | |link=https://casetext.com/case/mills-v-wyman |