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How did &#39;consideration&#39; semantically shift to mean &#39;something given in payment&#39;?
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<li>What semantic notion connects the bolded meaning beneath with all the others that aren't related to recompense? To me,  nouns like <a href="https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/compensation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">remittance or solatium (if we prefer an uncommon term)</a> fit the bolded meaning more intuitively.</li>
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  <p>mid-14c., <em>consideracioun</em>, "a beholding, looking at," also "a keeping in mind," also "contemplation, reflection,"<br>
   from Old French <em>consideracion</em> (12c., Modern French <em>considération</em>) and directly from Latin <em>considerationem</em> (nominative <em>consideratio</em>) "consideration, contemplation, reflection," noun of action from past-participle stem of <em>considerare</em> "to look at closely, observe" (see <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/consider?ref=etymonline_crossreference" rel="nofollow noreferrer">consider</a>).</p>
  
  <p>Meaning "a taking into account, act of paying attention to" is from late 14c.; that of "examination, observation" is from early 15c.. Sense of "thoughtful or sympathetic regard" is from c. 1400. Meaning "that which is or should be considered" is from late 15c. <strong>Meaning "something given in payment" (as recompense for service) is from c. 1600.</strong></p>
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<li>Which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change#Typology_by_Blank_(1999)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">semantic shift</a> is this? </li>
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<p>The bolded meaning looks related to meaning of 'consideration' in English contract law. See Paul Richards, <a href="http://catalogue.pearsoned.co.uk/educator/product/Law-of-Contract/9781292176109.page" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Law of Contract</em></a> (13 edn 2017), pp. 68 Bottom-69:</p>

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  <p>[...] it has become preferable today to think in terms of consideration amounting to a claimant buying a defendant’s promise by performing some act in return for it.
  Alternatively, the claimant may purchase the defendant’s promise by the furnishing of a counter-promise. This modern approach was summed up by Sir Frederick Pollock (1950) in
  <em>Principles of Contract</em>, where he defined consideration as:</p>
  
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    <p>An act or forbearance of one party, or the promise thereof, is the price for which the promise
    of the other is bought, and the promise thus given for value is enforceable.</p>
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  <p>This definition was approved by the House of Lords in <strong><em>Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co. Ltd v
  Selfridge and Co. Ltd</em></strong> [1915] AC 847 and is regarded as being more representative of the
  doctrine of consideration in the modern commercial contract than the nineteenth-century
  concept of benefit and detriment.</p>
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<p>Ames reviews the doctrine and the rise of "consideration" in "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1321512.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The History of Assumpsit. I. Express Assumpsit</a>", stating that after Henry VIII, "it became the practice, in pleading, to lay all <em>assumpsits</em> as made <em>in consideratione</em> of the detriment or debt". A person assumes (<em>assumpsit</em>) an obligation for some cause (<em>causa</em>). The assumption of obligation is made having considered the debts or detriment. Once "consideration" becomes a technical legal concept (as it did in the 17th c.), what remains variable is the prevailing doctrine associated with the term. </p>

<p>Pollock in <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Yl4vAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA135&amp;lpg=PA135&amp;dq=afterthoughts%20on%20consideration%20canadian%20law%20review%20vol%201&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=69tv_R3j37&amp;sig=AACagZD8K4-IZehBkulYj71Y-9w&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi-iPTPp_LdAhVE4VQKHYpyCuMQ6AEwAHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=afterthoughts%20on%20consideration%20canadian%20law%20review%20vol%201&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">'Afterthoughts on consideration'</a> suggests the conceptual development was from general contemplation, to deliberate decision, then including the grounds for a decision, and finally and most relevant to the current legal concept "that which induces a grant or promise'.</p>
