Contract Formation Acceptance in UK Law

  • Michael Furmston and G J Tolhurst, CONTRACT FORMATION: LAW AND PRACTICE Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), 2010. liii + 421 pp. ISBN 9780199284245. £175.
    • No. , September 2011
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 507-509
    ... ... The chapters cover some old favourites – the battle of the forms, the postal acceptance rule, and auctions, for example – as well as newer topics, such as online formation. Two chapters are dedicated to letters of intent, including ... ...
  • W W McBryde, THE LAW OF CONTRACT IN SCOTLAND Edinburgh: W Green & Son Ltd (www.wgreen.co.uk), Scottish Universities Law Institute, 3rd edn, 2007. clviii + 818 pp. ISBN 9780414016101. £175.
    • No. , January 2009
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 158-160
    ... ... In some areas, such as error in contract formation (in which the law could be regarded as barely intelligible at all and on ... of a contract in the introduction to the chapter on offer and acceptance. Precisely because so much was taken on board in the second edition, ... ...
  • Preliminary Sections
    • Preliminary Sections
    • Saggerson on Travel Law and Litigation - 7th Edition
    • Matthew Chapman/Sarah Prager/Jack Harding/Dominique Smith/Thomas Yarrow/Henk Soede
    • 1-20
    ... ... services combined by one trader before a contract is concluded 47 ... Regulation 2(5)(b)(i): ... Acceptance of liability clause 155 A taxonomy of contractual ... packages and common law principles 233 Formation of the contract 235 ... Offer and acceptance 235 ... ...
  • Discrimination, Freedom, and the Limits of Contract
    • No. 10-4, December 2009
    • International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
    This article offers a challenge to the widely held view that legislative prohibitions against discrimination in employment represent a restriction on freedom of contract. Rather than engage in the ...
    ... ... the law setting out the basic requirements of contract formation, such as the legal requirements of offer, acceptance and consid- ... ...
  • Post‐Formation Choice Of Law In Contract
    • No. 50-2, March 1987
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... The literature on the problem of formation is voluminous. See, e.g. Jaffey, “Offer and Acceptance and Related Questions in the English Conflict of Laws,” (1975) 24 I.C.L.Q. 603, and Libling, supra note 1, both of ... ...
  • Before Bell: The Roots of Error in the Scots Law of Contract
    • No. , September 2010
    • Edinburgh Law Review
    • 385-417
    ... ... “ Culpa in docendo ” (1954) 66 JR 253; P Stein, Fault in the Formation of Contract in Roman and Scots Law (1958); T B Smith, A Short Commentary ... Even if acceptance was required for a binding promise, 50 50 As Grotius thought: De iuri ... ...
  • Misunderstandings between Contracting Parties: Towards an Optimally Simple Legal Doctrine
    • No. 9-2, June 2002
    • Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law
    ... ... Introduction In an ideal world a contract is based on the ‘meeting o f minds’ of both ... of contracts, and the rules on tacit acceptance. In this article, we propose a new, simple, accu ... : Game Theory and the Law of Contract Formation’, 89 Michigan Law Review (1990), 215- 295 ... ...
  • Index
    • Construction Law. Volume III - Third Edition
    • Julian Bailey
    • 979-1052
    ... ... 188–II.11.190 varied work, II.7.13 acceptance incomplete particulars of agreement, I.2.29 of ... to be made, II.6.322 airmation of contract by determination pursuant to a contractual ... to agree or negotiate contract formation, I.2.60 tendering, I.4.102, I.4.103–I.4.104 on ... ...
  • Index
    • Construction Law. Volume II - Third Edition
    • Julian Bailey
    • 951-1024
    ... ... 188–ii.11.190 varied work, ii.7.13 acceptance incomplete particulars of agreement, i.2.29 of ... to be made, ii.6.322 airmation of contract by determination pursuant to a contractual ... to agree or negotiate contract formation, i.2.60 tendering, i.4.102, i.4.103–i.4.104 ... ...
  • Index
    • Construction Law. Volume I - Third Edition
    • Julian Bailey
    • 969-1042
    ... ... 188–II.11.190 varied work, II.7.13 acceptance incomplete particulars of agreement, I.2.29 of ... to be made, II.6.322 airmation of contract by determination pursuant to a contractual ... to agree or negotiate contract formation, I.2.60 tendering, I.4.102, I.4.103–I.4.104 on ... ...
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