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Prior to acceptance, an offer may be withdrawn. As acceptance must be communicated, the offeror cannot include an Acceptance by Silence clause. This was affirmed in Felthouse v Bindley, [36] here an uncle made an offer to buy his nephew's horse, saying that if he did not hear anything else he would "consider the horse mine". This did not stand ...
Though the nephew expressed interest in completing the sale there was no communication of that intention until after the horse was sold at auction on 25 February. The nephew's letter of 27 February which was submitted as evidence by Felthouse was judged to be the first instance of communication where the acceptance was communicated to the ...
The Carbolic Smoke Ball offer. In English contract law, an agreement establishes the first stage in the existence of a contract. The three main elements of contractual formation are whether there is (1) offer and acceptance (agreement) (2) consideration (3) an intention to be legally bound.
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Day 2: A decides to revoke the offer and puts a letter in the mail to B revoking the offer. Day 3: B puts a letter accepting the offer in the mail. Day 4: B receives A's revocation letter. The letter of revocation can be effective only when received, that is Day 4. However, a contract was formed on Day 3 when the letter of acceptance was posted.
The court held that Mr Cave was entitled to withdraw his offer at any time before the auctioneer accepted it. The auctioneer's request for bids was an invitation to treat, and each bid constituted an offer which could be withdrawn at any time until it's accepted, and finally, the fall of the auctioneer's hammer constituted acceptance of the highest bid.
A rare letter signed by three of the Founding Fathers of the United States is going on sale, and is expected to fetch up to $1 million when it goes under the hammer next week.
A collection of letters and drawings from Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne, illustrator EH Shepard and publisher Frederick Muller is set to go on auction this week, after being discovered in a ...