Unilateral Offer in UK Law

  • Homburg Houtimport BV v Agrosin Private Ltd (Starsin)
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Marzo 2003
    ... ... He seems to have preferred the view that there was a unilateral contract or offer by the shipper which became mutual when accepted by ... ...
  • 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 Marzo 1977
    ... ... them, either on the one hand as conferring upon the landlord a unilateral "option" for the exercise of which time was of the essence, or on the ... 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 ... ...
  • New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd v A. M. Satterthwaite & Company Ltd (Eurymedon)
    • Privy Council
    • 1974
  • Yeoman's Row Management Ltd and another v Cobbe
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Julio 2008
    ... ... a particular property and had agreed that one of them would make an offer, the other refraining from doing so, and that if the offer were to be ... gift' cases, (2) the 'common expectation' cases, and (3) the 'unilateral mistake' cases. These cases alike present the essential characteristics of ... ...
  • O'Neill v Phillips
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Mayo 1999
    ... ... O'Neill from the management without making him an offer for the shares. Mr. O'Neill was simply an employee who happened to have ... is any support in the authorities for such a stark right of unilateral withdrawal. There are cases, such as In re A Company (No. 006834 of 1988) ... ...
  • Bell v Lever Bros Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 15 Diciembre 1931
    ... ... Snelling's acceptance of the offer made him, and this difference of circumstance in the two cases is ... to recission of the agreements of settlement on the ground of unilateral mistake, ended by propounding the view that they were so entitled also on ... ...
  • Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Diciembre 2012
    ... ... He indicated his acceptance of the offer in the way that the letter required of him and, having done so, commenced ... [under a break clause in a lease] belong to the general class of unilateral notices served under contractual rights reserved, eg notices to quit, ... ...
  • Charman v Charman (No 2)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Mayo 2007
    ... ... the husband was genuinely bemused that the wife should regard his offer that she should leave the marriage with £20 million as anything other ... , at [29], usefully abbreviated the description to cases of “unilateral assets”. In summary Baroness Hale suggested, at [149] to [152], that ... ...
  • Bates (Thomas) and Son Ltd v Wyndham's (Lingerie) Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Noviembre 1980
    ... ... That was, in effect, a counter offer to the offer which had been put forward in the letter of the 3rd August, ... from resisting rectification on the ground that the mistake is unilateral and not common1" ... 34 Of course if a document is executed in ... ...
  • Great Peace Shipping Ltd v Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd (Cape Providence)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 Octubre 2002
    ... ... Mr Holder (who had taken over from Mr Little) and put forward an offer for the chartering of the " Great Peace ". During the conversation all ... consequent upon a case of voidability either for fraud or unilateral mistake induced by fraud. But if the allegation, even alternative, was ... ...
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