Stilk v Myrick

Stilk v Myrick
Court	Court of King's Bench
Decided	16 December 1809
Citation(s)	[1809] EWHC KB J58, 170 ER 1168
Transcript(s)	Full text of judgment
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting	Lord Ellenborough
Keywords
Consideration

Stilk v Myrick [1809] EWHC KB J58 is an English contract law case heard in the King's Bench on the subject of consideration. In his verdict, the judge, Lord Ellenborough decided that in cases where an individual was bound to do a duty under an existing contract, that duty could not be considered valid consideration for a new contract. It has been distinguished from Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd,^[1] which suggested that situations formerly handled by consideration could instead be handled by the doctrine of economic duress.