Consideration

[Lat. con side ratio.] Act of considering; mental view; mature thought; serious deliberation. "Let us think with consideration , and consider with acknowledging, and acknowledge with admiration." - Sidney. -Contemplation; meditation upon any thing; as, "the consideration of her virtues." - Sidney. -Importance; claim to notice; worthine of regard; respect; as, "an author of consideration ." - Add is on . -Motive of action; ground of conduct. "He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum." - Dryden. -Equivalent; compensation. "We are provident enough not to part with any thing serviceable to our bodies under a good consideration , but make little account of our souls." - Ray. (Law.) The material cause of a contract, without which it is not binding on the party. C. is said to be either expre ed or implied. An expre C. is where the motive or inducement of the parties to the contract is distinctly declared by its term, as where a man bargains to sell his land for $100. It is implied , where an act is done, or a legal demand forborne, at the request of another, without an expre stipulation; in which case, the law presumes an adequate C. for the act or forbearance to have been the inducement of the one party, and the offer of the other; as where a person comes to an inn and makes use of it, intention to pay for the accommodation is presumed. C. is also either valuable, that is, for money or an equivalent; or it is of natural affection, certain degrees of relationship affording in some cases sufficient consideration for a gift.