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Discuss About Offer and Acceptance in Contract Law:

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Currently, majority of people do not know much about contract law. Actually, we are signing contracts everyday. For example: Buying candies in a shop. There are two types of contract (written and verbal agreement). A contract is made by orally, by conduct and in writing. It also consists of an agreement, consideration and legally binding. There are eight elements of contract law, namely offer, acceptance, consideration, capacity, legal relations, legality and agreement. In this essay, I am going discuss the offer and acceptance particularly.

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In addition, an offer is when an offeror(the person who makes the offers) proposes a set of terms to an offeree(the person who accepts the offer). However, people might be in doubt about the …show more content…

However, it could be effective when the offeree sent it out in some situations.
After that, I am going to talk about “termination of an offer”. An offer cannot be accepted when it has been terminated and there are several ways of ending it. First of all, when one party refuses the offer of the other, the offer is terminated, it called refusal. Secondly, when the offeree does not accept the original offer but makes another offer which changes the terms or conditions, then the original offer is ended, it called counter-offer. For example: Kenneth wants to sell his computer for $300 but Tim wants to buy it for $250. In this circumstance, the first offer is not existed. Thirdly, the offeror might cancel or withdraw the offer at any time before acceptance, unless money to keep the offer open has been given, it called revocation. Following this, “lapse of time” means a period of time the seller gives for sale. For instance, there was an advertisement about selling a pair of shoe in 2weeks time. After 2weeks, Nicole wanted to buy it. In this situation, it is impossible for her to purchase it as the offer was terminated. Last but not least, the offer can be cancelled because of one party is dead.

In conclusion, it is important for us to know about all of these things which I have mentioned in this essay. For example, an offer must be communicated, the differences between offer and invitation to treat, in what situations the offer will be terminated, what makes an

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