Congregation Kadimah Toras-Moshe v. DeLeo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• no consideration to support decedent’s oral promise to donate money to synagogue, where synagogue had only a moral, not a legal, obligation to commemorate the decedent
• “A hope or expectation ... is not equivalent to either legal detriment or reliance”
• oral promise to make a gift was not an enforceable contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).