When doing a business‚ a contract is usually needed. Since a contract is an agreement‚ therefore‚ for a contract to exist‚ the parties must assent to the transaction. Assent usually takes the form of offer and acceptance. An offer is defined by Treitel as "an expression of willingness to contract on certain terms‚ made with the intention that it shall become binding as soon as it is accepted by the person to whom it is addressed"‚ the "offeree". In addition‚ an offer is a statement of the terms
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Contract: Offer and Acceptance LAW 531 December 12‚ 2012 Offer and Acceptance Creating the contract is an extremely difficult process. A contract must have an offer and acceptance determine whether an agreement exists between two parties. An offer is a suggestion made by one person to another of his or her readiness to enter into an agreement under certain terms and conditions without further negotiations. The contract is accepted when the offer has been formally communicated to the offeror
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In the given question the issue is whether there is a binding contract between Gerard and Reg. A contract can be defined as a voluntary assumption of obligation .In order to establish a contract there must be an offer followed by an acceptance. In order to see whether the parties have come to an agreement the court would look at the intention of the parties. Intention will be looked at objectively .In applying the objective test the courts consider whether the reasonable person in the other parties’
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For a Simple contract to be valid one party must make an offer and the other accept it (see: Acceptance of offer). The offer will usually indicate the form the acceptance should take (e.g.‚ in writing‚ by post)‚ and may indicate when the acceptance will be deemed to have occurred (e.g.‚ on delivery of the posted acceptance‚ see: Acceptance of offer by post). In seeking to prove that a contract was in existence‚ it will be necessary to show that there was a definite offer. Certain things look like
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Business Law Question 1 For the given scenarios it is stated that both John and Patrick are aged over eighteen and are of sound mind and in the each scenario they intend to enter a legally binding contract. For a contract to come into existence there have to be three steps involved: • Agreement (Offer and Acceptance) • Consideration • Intention to create legal relations All three scenarios are supported by “consideration”. The general idea of consideration is that
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Introduction A contract is defined as an agreement enforceable by law. Hence for all contracts there should have an agreement. The agreement arises by one of the parties making an offer and its acceptance by the other party. Both offer and acceptance create an agreement. In simple contract should first contain an offer made by one party to the other. What is an offer? As per Sec 2(a) of the contract act “When one person signifies to another his
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In this essay‚ I am going to analyse the rules of offer and acceptance and then come to a conclusion as to how satisfactory I think each of them are and why. In its general sense‚ an offer is an indication or proposal by one person or party (offeror) to another (offeree). It consists of one party promising to do or give something for the other party’s promise to do or give something in return. There must be willingness to contract on certain terms‚ made with the intention that it shall become
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Introduction: Rules of Offer and Acceptance are applied to enforce an agreement by the law. This agreement is the first requisite of any contract of the business. In order to a contract come into being between parties‚ the offer is made by the offeror and the oferee accept that offer. In 21st century‚ there are rapid changes in business trend which create lots of new business model such as e-business and global business. The more business participates‚ the more requirements of Offer and Acceptance Rules to adapt
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2.1 Definition of Proposal/Offer Section 2(a) of the Contract Acts 1950 provides that: “when one person signifies to another his willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything‚ with a view to obtain the assent of that other to the act or abstinence‚ he is said to make a proposal”. Eg: Ali advertised in Malay Mails that he will give a reward of RM100 to anyone who finds his pet. He signified his willingness to do an act‚ which is to pay a reward‚ upon certain terms‚ with a view of obtaining
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Business Law(BL) John is an offeror as he is putting his property out at 2 million and this offer may also be made to the world at large not just individuals or specific groups of people(Carhill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co 1893). After having assessing through the situation of Adam and Bill‚ i would like to touch on assessing Adam’s situation first. In this scenario‚ John was the offeror as he offered 2 million for the house and Adam is the offeree but as Adam was the first viewer of the house
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