Lewis Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Textbook Example: in Scotland, if you advertise a reward for returning > your lost cellphone, you are contractually obligated to reward the > person returning the phone. If you refuse, they can take you to court > for this reward. (In this case, the phone is not consideration, as it > your phone, not theirs. They are not actually giving you anything when > they return your phone).
I think I've come across a very similar textbook example for English law, with a dog instead of a phone. It was explained to me that the performance of returning the dog counts as consideration. Edmund
