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Pg/490 Section 491

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#1 Define a contract. A contract is a written, oral, or implied agreement between at least two parties, an offeror and offeree. Contracts are created to facilitate the transfer of property, provision of services, or other rights. For a contract to be enforceable it needs to meet four basic requirements: agreement, consideration, contractual capacity, and needs to include a lawful object. Contracts are designed to be enforceable by law, ensuring all parties meet their contractual obligations to the other parties. An example of an enforceable contract is two parties agree transfer ownership of a vehicle owned lawfully by one of the parties for $100.00. The contract is enforceable since the parties entered an agreement, for the consideration of $100.00, one of the parties lawfully owned the vehicle, and the contracts object is lawful. Pg. 490, 492 #2 Define an offer. Who is the offeror? Who is the offeree? An offer is defined as: The manifestation of willingness to enter into a bargain, so made to justify another person in understanding that his assent to that bargain is invited and will conclude it (pg. 493). The parties to an agreement are, the offeror and the offeree. The offeror is the party making the offer, and the offeree is the party receiving the offer to enter into an offer. Basically, the offeror promises the offeree …show more content…

The offeree is the only party with legal power to accept an offer, thus forming a contract. In addition, for the contract to be considered accepted, the offeree must accept all the terms of the offer unequivocally. This is called “the mirror image rule”. For example, if the offeree stated “I will purchase your home, but I wish the drive way was repaved”. The offeree accepted the terms, making this an accepted contract. An example of non-acceptance is if the offeree stated “I will purchase your home, if you pave the driveway”, This would be a

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