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    whether there was an offer. Ben bought the bus through the ‘garthdon-jumbles.eu’ website and despite a price being displayed the initial advert was an invitation to treat. An invitation to treat is “when the person who made the invitation to treat is not obligated to accept the offer in the absence of a promise to do so” . The invitation to treat was only then made into an offer when Colin sent an email of acceptance saying: “Hello Ben! Thank you buying the Routemaster! I confirm that I accept your

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    Offer and Acceptance

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    Without offer and acceptance there can be no contract and so it is essential that the law provides rules to identify what constitutes both an offer and an acceptance. An offer may be defined as a statement of willingness to contract on specified terms made with the intention that, if accepted, it shall become a binding contract. An offer may be express or implied from conduct. In many cases it is crucial to determine when and where a contract is actually formed and this too needs rules. In the vast

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    Tsang Ching Hung 53081466 LW2903 S05 Human Resources Management Charu SHARMA ASSIGNMENT QUESTION Semester B, 2013/2014 On Monday, 13 January 2014, Ada wrote to Ben saying, “Please sell me your vintage BNW car for $80,000”. On Tuesday, 14 January 2014, Ben replied by leaving a message on Ada’s voicemail, “Sure, provided you pay by cash”. Ben then changed his mind and he posted a letter to Ada which read, “I have reconsidered the matter. I am no longer able to sell you my BNW”. This letter arrived

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    Scots Law of Contract

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    All of the case studies are concerned with the Law of Contract, specifically the formation of a contract and the differences between an invitation to treat and a contract. We will investigate each consumers’s specific contract or lack thereof individually and advise Bruce on his legal position. A contract is an agreement between two or more parties which in Scotland does not need to take a specific form, as a spoken agreement is still equally as enforceable as a written contract in certain circumstances

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    Charlie and Doris is a classic issue of offer and acceptance. These are two elements of a valid contract. The scenario also raises its potential of being an invitation to treat as this is a stark contrast to that of an offer. That is, we must consider whether the notice placed on the car constitutes a valid offer or if it was a mere invitation to treat. If this notice does amount to a valid offer where Arnold outlines the terms and conditions (the price at which he was willing to sell and his telephone

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    com/blog/law/contracts/contracts-keyed-to-murphy/the-bargain-relationship/lefkowitz-v-great-minneapolis-surplus-store/ Display of goods for sale Case 1 For example, in the case of Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots shown that displaying goods for sales is amount to an invitation to treat. The pharmacy displaying the medicine, which was restricted by the poison act. Thus, the customer who took the medicine which was restricted by the “poison” act without the knowledge of the pharmacy went to the cashier counter to bought it

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    In the case stated above, it’s no offer was made by Bob and Cecil. Bob views an online advertisement on Gumtree offering a second hand iphone 6. The advertisement contains the seller’s name, Cecil, and an address in Maze Hill. He did visit the seller but at the end Cecil doesn’t want to sell the iphone to Bob as few minutes earlier he had received a call from third parties that has offering a better price for the iphone 6. At last, Bob decided to sue Cecil for his irresponsibility attitude . In

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    The Law Of Contract Essay

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    An invitation to treat can most effectively be explained with reference to the phrase ‘make me an offer which I may or may not accept’. This is a marketing tactic which provokes an offer. This was accepted by Louise it was not an offer to her it was her who made the

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    Legal Advice for Donothy In this assignment, I am going to discuss legal issues of Donothy’s case, apply legal principles and give her legal advice. The fact of the present case is that an advertisement expressed that their slimming product Lemon Grass Pills could guarantee the customer who used their products would lose 20kg within two months if he continuously drank one pill every day for a period of two months, or they would pay for 50000hkd. Donothy, a consumer who wanted to lose weight successfully

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    The formation of a contract requires offer and acceptance in order to become legally binding. An offer is an expression of willingness to contract on specified terms made with the intention that it is to become legally binding as soon as it is accepted by the person to whom it is addressed. The advert above is a unilateral contract as “one party assumes an obligation under the contract”. Consideration is the act of performance in accordance with the terms of the offer, in this case acceptance would

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