Offerer & Acceptance (Law)

Manifestation: Acceptance of an offer requires a communication of the acceptance to the offeror from the offeree so in order to satisfy the mutual assent requirement. Pete acceptance could be inferred through his statement No problem you can let me know sometime within the next two weeks.

Acceptance-This basically means that the terms of the offer have been clearly understood and agreed to through consent and assent and at no time will the terms be changed.

In this case, Kallessi Mc Tavish is the principal, Maya Stork is the agent and the new suppliers are the third party. Firstly, this is a case of ratification as all the requirements of ratification are met, i.e. there is a clear principal in existence. This requirement can be contradicted with the case of Kelner V Baxter 1866 LR 2 CP 174, where the directors ordered goods before the company was even formed and so could not be held to pay for the goods. Principal is in capacity. Ratification is timeous and can be contradicted with the case Goodall V Bilsland 1909 SC 1152, where the solicitor had 10 days to appeal against a license renewal of a wine merchant and won the case but the wine merchant appealed against this as the solicitor didn’t

Analysis: This situation should belong to Offer and Acceptance Section. An offer is not valid until it is received by the offered, and the offeror is not limited by the offer until such time as it is accepted according to Communication of an Offer. So in this case, Bishop received the letter on May 3rd, before May 3rd, it is not bounded. On may 22nd, Bishop wrote to this company and accepted this offer. According to Acceptance of an Offer, the acceptance must take the form if certain words or acts in accordance with the offer that will indicate to the offeror that the offeree has accepted the offer. In addition, the acceptance of the offer takes place when the letter of acceptance, properly addressed and the postage paid, is placed in the postbox or post office. So for Bishop (defendant), it obeys the rules of an offer and acceptance. For Armstrong Aggregates Company (plaintiff), they cannot change their offer by increasing the offer because Bishop had already accepted the offer and sent to this company on May 22nd. Meanwhile, the company did not communicate with Bishop about change the price. Therefore, this action is not valid and this company should still accept this offer at $180.

‘Acceptance is a definite and unqualified assent to an offer, on all of its terms. Any acceptance given conditionally will not result in a legally binding agreement.’

The offer and acceptance model is flawed- only an agreement is necessary. In order to fully comprehend this statement, we must first establish what constitutes and offer and what constitutes acceptance. “An offer is a statement by one party of willingness to enter into a contract on stated terms, provided that these terms are, in turn, accepted by the party to whom the offer is addressed”. Acceptance is “…an unqualified expression of ascent to the terms proposed by the offeror”. The “Offer and acceptance model” is based on the court’s adopt the “mirror image” rule of contractual formation. Applying the definitions stated above, we can take this to mean that there must be a clear and unequivocal offer which must be matched by an equally

For there to be a binding agreement between Dr Hu and Riversong Mediquip, two factors must be present, these factors are and offer and acceptance. An offer can be defined as a willingness to enter into a bargain and in doing so does justify another person an understanding that his/her assent is invited and will conclude the bargain. Heydon JA suggested that an offer must ‘take form of a proposal for consideration which gives an offeree an opportunity to choose between acceptance and rejection’ .The offer in this scenario was made by Riversong Mediquip to sell Dr Hu medical equipment as was depicted in a previous correspondence between the parties. The

If the paperwork was not completed correctly e.g. adding correct offer, sending the right paperwork to the correct solicitors etc.

Under Common Law, for a contract to exist, three elements must be present: an offer, an acceptance and a consideration. The notions of offer and acceptance under Common Law are not fundamentally different from those in French contract law, although their effects may differ. The offer indicates the willingness of a party to enter into a bargain, and the acceptance reflects the agreement of the other party to the offer.

In the case at hand, it is very clear that there was an agreement between Jim and Laura on one hand and Stan on the other hand for the purchase of a Sedan car since there was validly made offer that was without undue influence accepted by the car dealer. Given the fact that there was an offer that was made by Jim and Laura without undue influence and was accepted by Stan without undue influence cemented the contract. This was supported by the fact that both parties to the contract were all mature and of sound mind (Friedman, 2011). Despite the fact that the deal between

The offer had been agreed upon from both parties is important. The acceptance of an offer cannot alter the terms of the specified in the offer. “An offeree accepts by saying or doing something that a reasonable person would understand to mean that he definitely wants to take the offer.” (Beatty, 2016) Once the buyers or offeree came to an

Mr Wu made Mr Williams an offer on the 3rd Jan 08, open until the 30th of August. He then wrote to Mr Williams on the 30th March 08 to revoke this offer. However, under article 16 of the CISG, as his offer stipulated a fixed time for acceptance, it was irrevocable, and he could not revoke it. However there is no evidence that Mr Williams accepted this offer, so it is of no real concern to Mr Wu’s current legal woes.

In the article “Consideration - in Acceptance of Contract”， this support Robert’s (2015) evidence that if an act is performed then a subsequent promise to pay by reference to that act is not enforceable as the consideration was past. Other that, he also noted that if there was an implication; the past promise to pay is enforceable.

Acceptance is a final and unqualified expression of consent to the terms of an offer. An offer may only be accepted by the person to whom it is made unless an agent is authorized to accept on behalf of that person. In addition, an acceptance must be made in the manner requested or authorized by the offering party. If the party to whom the offer is made

7.Payment of Money only:- There must be a promise to pay only money and not other consideration, e.g. “I promise to pay B a sum of Rs. 50,000 and deliver him my Scorpio Car’’ is not valid.