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CONSIDERATION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - if A has entered into a contract with B to do work for/ supply goods or services to B in return for payment by B;
      - B promises A additional payment in return for As undertaking to meet completion date
      - if , before A has completely performed his obligations, B has reason to doubt whether A will be able to do so;
      - As a result , B obtains a benefit or avoids a disbenefit
      - there is no duress or fraud on the part of A
      - the benefit to B constitutes valuable consideration
- - - - LORD WILBERFORCE: "An agreement to do an act which the promisor is under an existing obligation to a third party to do , may quite well amount to valid considerstion and does so in the present case ....
      - ... The promisee obtains the benefit of a direct obligation which he can enforce "