McMichael v. Price, 58 P.2d 549 (OK 1936) mutuality of obligation, and an illusory promise.

In the nineteenth century the illusory Napoleonic promises of liberty were dissolved in Carbonaria and brigandage.

In contract law, an illusory promise is one that courts will not enforce.

Strictly speaking, this is an illusory promise, since the promisor has no actual legal burden to pay if he chooses not to.

These cases began when our welfare system was still sending out an illusory promise to inexperienced girls that they and their children would be supported for the rest of their lives.

But state officials said that members of the new pools would have only an illusory promise of insurance.

Through gritty dialogue and edgy humor, Ball centers much of his social critique on the illusory promises of the American Dream.

The Uitlanders and British South Africans, who had experienced in the past how illusory the promises of the President might be, insisted upon guarantees.

It's this promise, however illusory, of exercising some sovereignty over the falling darkness that makes the steady trickle through Dignitas's Swiss clinic so fascinating.

An illusory promise, or one which the promisor actually has no obligation to keep, does not count as consideration.