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1665 E. Stillingfleet Rational Acct. Grounds Protestant Relig. 238 To challenge a right to a Promise of the..Priviledge, without equal evidence of the descent of it..is a great presumption, and a challenge of the Promisor for partiality, if he doth not make it good.

1704 T. Wood New Inst. Imperial or Civil Law iii. iv. 190 If the Answer is different from the Question, either in quantity or quality, when the Stipulator and Promisor speak of the same Thing, but differ in their meaning.

1746 C. Viner Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity I. 454 Though no Profit occurs to the Promisor, yet the other Party, without this promise, would be subject and liable to Loss or Damage.

1802 J. Root Rep. Superior Court & Supreme Court of Errors 2 215 An express promise to pay a sum of money, cannot be discharged by the promisor's doing something else.

1812 W. Cranch Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 5 142/1 To constitute a consideration it is not necessary that a benefit should accrue to the promisor. It is sufficient that something valuable flows from the promisee, and that the promise is the inducement to the transaction.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. §100 A stipulation to convey on the day before the death of the promisee or promisor is invalid.

1901 E. Z. Mezes Ethics xiii. 356 He has no right, after the example of Shylock, to use the promise as a means of onerously oppressing the promisor.

1944 Pacific Reporter (1957) 2nd Ser. 153 50/2 The courts have required a promisor..to prove that the risk of the frustrating event was not reasonably foreseeable.

1981 Observer 18 Jan. 11/7 ‘I'll do it tomorrow’..does not mean..tomorrow literally but sometime, when it suits the promisor's convenience.