Counter Offer in UK Law

  • Butler Machine Tool Company Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corporation (England) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 April 1977
    ...... seem to me to be this: The quotation of the 23rd May, 1969 was an offer by the sellers to the buyers containing the terms and conditions on the ... that' it was in law a rejection of the offer and constituted a counter-offer. As Mr. Justice Megaw said in Trollope & Colls Ltd. & ors. v. ......
  • Gojkovic v Gojkovic (No. 2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 April 1991
    ...... the judge, the husband, through his legal advisers, made an open offer based upon calculations provided by the accountants Cooper and Lybrand. ... during that week, the husband's solicitors were pressing for a counter-offer, and refusing the meeting sought by the wife's solicitors. The ......
  • Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation
    • Court of Appeal
    • 17 May 1955
    ...... in this case were as follows: 8th September, 1954: Dutch company: "Offer for account our associates Miles Far East Corporation Tokyo up to 100 ... Telex communications but the important one for this appeal is the counter offer of the 8th September, 1954, made by the Plaintiff in London, and the ......
  • United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Burnley now The Council of the Borough of Burnley
    • House of Lords
    • 23 March 1977
    ...... analysis, the grant of an option in such cases is an irrevocable offer (being supported by consideration so that it cannot be revoked). In order ... which the tenant may accept the landlord's proposal or to make a counter-offer. At least two months are to be allowed after service of the lessor's ......
  • Fielding & Platt Ltd v Najjar
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 January 1969
    ......When the plaintiffs received that acceptance of their offer, they sent a formal and detailed confirmation; and it is to be observed ... was already agreed, and it would be quite unreal to regard it as a counter-offer containing a new term whereby the goods were to be invoiced as part ......
  • Siebe Gorman & Company Ltd v Pneupac Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 October 1981
    ......The service of this summons was not an offer and was not intended to create or result in a contractual relationship. ... defendants' documents, that announcement would not have created a counter-offer to a non-existent offer, nor would it have been intended to create, ......
  • Trentham (G Percy) Ltd v Archital Luxfer Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 July 1992
    ......Secondly, it is true that the coincidence of offer and acceptance will in the vast majority of cases represent the mechanism ...Trentham was not prepared to accept this offer but made a counter-offer contained in Order No. 8285 dated 30th January 1984. This ......
  • Kelly v Cooper and Another
    • Privy Council
    • 19 October 1992
    ......The defendants showed both houses to a prospective purchaser, whose offer to purchase the adjacent house was accepted. He then offered to buy the ... certainly there was nothing to prevent the plaintiff from making a counter-offer. . At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot's ......
  • Oliver Alfred Sidney Cutts (Appellant (Plaintiff) v Albert Head and Another (Respondents
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 07 December 1983
    ...... as he had declined to look at and take into consideration an offer of compromise made by the plaintiff before the trial, which was contained ......
  • Reid Minty v Taylor
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 October 2001
    ...... Should this offer of terms for the disposal of these proceedings not be accepted, the ......
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