Graphic Arts Finishers, Inc. v. Boston Redevelopment Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• defining detriment as \doing something which he was then privileged not to do\ [citation omitted]
• “The damage sustained by the plaintiff need not be stated [in the complaint] with particularity.”
• “The law does not concern itself with the adequacy of consideration; it is enough if it is valuable”
• “a promise that binds one to do nothing at all is illusory and cannot be consideration”
• government's unlimited right to terminate could render contract illusory
• “[A] promise that binds one to do nothing at all is illusory and cannot be consideration.”(citing Gill v. Richmond Co-op. Ass’n, 34 N.E.2d 509,513–14(Mass. 1941)); 3Samuel Williston& Richard A. Lord, A Treatise onthe Law of Contracts § 7:11 (4th ed.2008

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).