Acceptance
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- Created on: 26-11-19 16:20
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- Acceptance
- 'Battle of the forms'
- Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Co. (1877)
- Changing terms of contract is counter offer, accepted when company first ordered coal
- Acceptance from conduct implied
- Butler Machine Tool Co v Ex-Cell-O (1979)
- Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Co. (1877)
- Manner of Acceptance
- Manchester Diocesan Council v Commercial & General Investments (1970)
- No specified that preferred mode was only
- Manchester Diocesan Council v Commercial & General Investments (1970)
- Knowledge of offer
- R v Clarke (1927)
- Was not aware of offer whilst performing, so could not claim
- Williams v Cowardine
- Motive of performance irrelevant if have knowledge
- R v Clarke (1927)
- Communication of acceptance
- Felthouse v Bindley (1862)
- Silence is not acceptance
- Felthouse v Bindley (1862)
- Time of formation
- Postal rule (Adams v Lindsell)
- Household Fire Insurance v Grant (1879)
- Acceptance communicated even if post lost or delayed
- Holwell Securities v Hughes (1974)
- 'notice' meant that post had to be received
- Holwell Securities v Hughes (1974)
- Acceptance communicated even if post lost or delayed
- Household Fire Insurance v Grant (1879)
- Instantaneous communication
- Entores v Miles Far Eastern Corporation (1955)
- Acceptance when received - Brinkibon v Stahag Stahl (1983) - sent outside working hours accepted when capable of being read
- Entores v Miles Far Eastern Corporation (1955)
- Postal rule (Adams v Lindsell)
- 'Battle of the forms'
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