What’s on the Consideration poster
The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes.
- Each party must provide something of value in exchange for the other's promise.
- Sufficient ≠ adequate
- £1 for a house = Sufficient consideration
- Past act = Generally not consideration
- Existing duty = Generally not sufficient
- Common mistake: Assuming a contract needs a fair price → Adequacy is not required
Educational reference. Promissory estoppel can, in limited circumstances, prevent going back on a promise without consideration.
Questions about the Consideration poster
- What’s on the Consideration poster?
- The rule, 3 worked examples, and the mistake everyone makes. Each party must provide something of value in exchange for the other's promise.; Sufficient ≠ adequate; £1 for a house = Sufficient consideration; Past act = Generally not consideration; Existing duty = Generally not sufficient; Common mistake: Assuming a contract needs a fair price → Adequacy is not required. Educational reference. Promissory estoppel can, in limited circumstances, prevent going back on a promise without consideration.
- Who is the Consideration poster for?
- Consideration belongs to the Law section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning contract can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Consideration poster?
- It must be sufficient but need not be adequate. The law does not police the bargain's value. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Consideration belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Consideration?
- Forming a Contract, Agency and Breach & Remedies sit alongside Consideration in the Law section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Forming a ContractAgencyBreach & Remedies
- Is the Consideration poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Consideration downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Law section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Consideration poster print at?
- Consideration is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Consideration loses nothing.Printing guide
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