1. Introduction A contract is a valid or legally binding agreement between two parties. Contract is also said to be as a set of promise which the court and law will enforce it. Not all contract need to be presented in written form. A written contract is normally drawn up by listing all of the terms agreed between two parties . Furthermore, these two parties will need to sign and date the document at the end. In order to form a contract, there are six important elements required. This includes offer, acceptance, consideration, intention to be legally bound, capacity to contract, as well as legality of promises. A contract involves valuable consideration where sacrifice or contribution of valued items. Parties who is under 18 has no …show more content…
2.1 Acceptance must be clear and absolutely unconditional. Over the years, there are several rule of acceptance have evolved in the courts. An acceptance of offer should be unequivocal, unconditional and clear, and this implies the first rule of acceptance. In order to form a contract, there should not be any variation in either terms of the acceptance or the terms of offer, or either both. If there is any variation occur, the contract will eventually not be exist. Counter offer is a situation where the offeree tries to change terms in the offer given by offeror. Any counter-offer made by offeree such as adding or changing terms in the offer, shows that the offeree is not accepting the offer and the original offer is destroyed. Counter-offer behaviour is illustrated in the case of Hyde v Wrench . In the case of Hyde v Wrench, Hyde counter-offer to buy Wrench 's property for $950. The counter-offer was rejected by Wrench as he wants to sell it for $1000. Hyde then said he would purchase the property for $1000 but Wrench refused to sell for $1000 which he had previously offered the property to Hyde for that price. When Hyde sued Wrench to try to enforce the "contract ' to buy the property for $1000, the court rejected Hyde 's claim, holding that Hyde had rejected the offer of $1000 by making a
There is consideration present here since according to the Doctrine of Consideration, ' promises will legally enforceable if you ask for something in return for ' something else. Here, Ken asks for £12,000 in return for his work to build Jack 's conservatory. Therefore, when Jack accordingly contacts Ken to say that he will be employing him to do the building work, ' Jack has accepted Ken 's offer, and both parties have entered into a legally binding contract. Jack 's statement qualifies as an acceptance since there is correspondence between the two parties, whereby both the offer and acceptance are on the same terms; there is nexus, where the acceptance is in response to the offer; and finally, there is communication on both parts. Moreover, when Jack states that he will accept the most competitive ' tender, he could argue that the recommendation from Barnie, ' his neighbour ' who expresses that Ken is an excellent builder ' constitutes Jack 's meaning of the most competitive. ' However, this is not relevant unless Bob wishes to argue in court that Jack 's proposal was indeed an invitation to tender, which constitutes an offer, as according to Harvela.
Enforceable contract Peter v. Don. Peter will have an enforceable contract with Don if he can show that all the required elements of a contract are present. If there is a contract between the two then it will be governed by the common law requirements of an enforceable contract instead of the Uniformed Commercial Code, which would be used if their agreement had involved the sale of goods. In order for a contract to be formed between Peter and Don the two must react mutual consent Mutual consent can generally be formed through the form of an (A) offer and (B) acceptance. An additional requirement for both parties to show (C) consideration is also
A contract is a legally obligatory promise or set of promises (Bagley, C. 2013). If this promise is broken, either party involved can be legally responsible and take the other party to court. There are four basic elements in the creation of a valid contract. The first consist of an agreement between the parties involved, by an presented offer and acceptance. The second states that the parties’ promises must be supported by something of worth, known as consideration. The third advises both parties must have the ability to enter into a contract. The fourth element states the contract must have a legal purpose (Bagley, C 2013).
The area of Law concerned in this case is The Law of Contract specifically relating to the revocation of an offer and counter offers. The case Wolf and Wolf vs Forfar Potato Co Ltd (1984) directly links to the case between Bruce and Ken. As Bruce is once again dealing with the Law of Contract specifically the non-acceptance of an offer, he is under no legal obligation to sell Ken the rare vinyl at the original price of £40. When Ken rejected the original offer he created a counter offer which in Scots law is a completely new offer and caused Bruce’s original offer to lapse and was up to Bruce to decide wether or not to accept the new terms, after Bruce rejected the counter offer all offers between Bruce and Ken had lapsed. When Ken came back insisting that there was a contract between them and he was entitled to the album Bruce was in fact under no legal requirement to give Ken the vinyl as all offers had lapsed and no contract existed between then.
A contract is a promise between two or more parties that the law recognizes as binding by providing a remedy in the event of breach. In order for a promise to be enforceable it must be supported by consideration. Consideration can be defined as a bargained for exchange between the promisor and promisee; a promise can not be considered a contract without consideration. Common law states also require mutual assent to exist for a contract to be enforceable, this means that there must be an offer and an acceptance of said offer. For example, if a promise is made between two consenting people and one of those
A contract is an agreement between and offeror, and an offeree, that can be enforceable by a court of law or equity (Cheeseman, 2010). A contract consists of the following elements; agreement, consideration, contractual capacity, and lawful object. Understanding each of these elements is of the utmost importance to ensure that each party involved has a good understanding of what is expected from one another.
A contract is a legal document that states and clarifies a formal agreement between two different people or groups. This implies that an agreement between parties must have a strong backing by law. The following are therefore required for a contract to be mandatory for all participants involved. These elements in a contract prove whether the contract is regarded credible or not credible: The objective is to build a legal relationship, offer and acceptance, consideration, capacity to contract and legality.
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
Contracts can be defined through promises between parties that are enforceable through law. We know that both parties agreed verbally, an oral agreement was made to hold the car for one day with a hundred-dollar deposit and Stan agreed to the terms that the deposit was refundable. Contracts can be in in two form which are written or oral. Based on the elements of contracts, many fundamentals factors are considered mandatory to form a contract that is binding on parties and are primarily outlined through the following:
for it to qualify as a proper contract in the eyes of the law: offer
A contract is an agreement made with an intention of legal rights and obligations which the law will enforce. It contains the agreement, consideration and intention. It also have some other things to consider, like capacity of parties, genuine consent or legality of object.
In order for a contract to be formed, there are various requirements. These are offer, acceptance, consideration, and the intention to create legal relations. A contract may also be terminated.
The next step in contracting an agreement is to either accept the offer being put on the table or if the party does not agree then they enter a counteroffer. A counteroffer, is considered a non acceptance but, instead a response to an offer that modifies the original offer. Then the original offering party has the choice to accept, counteroffer back, or deny the offer which would mean the contract would be no more. If the offer is accepted, then the next step will be mutuality.
Carlill v Carbonic Smoke Ball is instrumental in developing the law of unilateral offers. The case sets out the three
A contract is an agreement between people or legal entities (such as corporations) in which one party agrees to perform a service or provide goods in exchange for the payment of money or other goods or services. A binding, legally enforceable contract can be in writing or oral.