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The doctrine of consideration is probably the most controversial in all of English contract law. Professor Charles Fried has described the need for consideration as ‘internally inconsistent and random in its operation, allowing some freely made, rational promises to be enforced but not others’. Scholars have criticised the doctrine as:
The purpose of this article is to help you to critically evaluate the rules that make up the doctrine of consideration.
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