References: [1850] EngR 814, (1850) 5 Exch 775, (1850) 155 ER 339
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A declaration alleged, that in consideration that the plaintiff, at the defendant’s request, promised to marry him, he promised to marry her. Averments that the plaintiff hath continued and still is unmarried, and, until the discovery of the defendant’s marriage, was ready and willing to marry him, that, after the defendant’s promise the plaintiff discovered that the defendant, at the time of his promise, was, and still is, married, and that the plaintiff had not, at the time of the defendant’s promisee, any notice of the defendant’s then marriage. Held, on motion in arrest of judgment, that the declaration was good, and that the plaintiff’s remaining unmarried was a sufficient consideration to support the defendant’s promise – Quaere, whether a promise by a married man to marry another woman after his wife’s death is void.
