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A contract without consideration is void. When at the desire of one party, the other party does something, the consideration is said to flow from the latter to the former. A house was on fire and a child was trapped inside the house. Everyone was shouting for help. A brave onlooker, hearing the shreikhs of child, went inside the house and brought it out. The grateful father of the child promised to pay the rescuer Rs. 10,000/-. Subsequently, he reneged the promise. The rescuer sused the promise for the breach.

  1. The father of the child must pay for the service rendered by the rescuer.

  2. The rescuer is not entitled to the payment, since he acted on his own.

  3. Commercial considerations cannot be applied to humanitarian instincts.
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Explanation

(2) The rescuer did not carry out the rescue in pursuance of a promise to pay by the father. He did the act on his own and not in exchange for any promise. The subsequent promise does not amount to a contract since for a contract an act, just be done at the desire of another, as is clearly not the case here.

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