Hi, need to submit a 1750 words essay on the topic Contract law questions.or instance, if a passenger goes to a bus terminus where there is a cab plying the desired route at $10. it means that the ope

Hi, need to submit a 1750 words essay on the topic Contract law questions.

or instance, if a passenger goes to a bus terminus where there is a cab plying the desired route at $10. it means that the operator of such cab is offering transport services at the prescribed price for the designated route. If the passenger decides to take the cab, his action implies that he has accepted the offer and thus entered into a binding contract. On the contrary, an offeror may revoke the offer before it is accepted. Thus, a party cannot bring an action if he accepts an offer that had been revoked before such acceptance.

Offer can either be oral or written and as discussed by (DiMatteo, 1998:152), offer has several ingredients including request for information, counter-offer and intention to create legal relations. Moreover, an offer must be explicit in nature with no ambiguity whatsoever. Where the offeror makes an offer, a party might want to know more about details of the offer. This does not suggest that the second party thereof has indeed accepted the offer.

In any case, request for information cannot warrant enforcement of a contract since there has not been any contract between the two parties as illustrated in Harvey v Facey [1893] AC 552 Privy Council (Bhana, Nortje & Bonthuys, 2009:57). It was held that the complainant could not succeed because there offer had not been accepted since the telegram reply only stating the lowest price but did not indicate whether the supplier would sell the Bumper Hall Pen.

Where one party has offered to sell a pet dog at $200 and an interested party bargain to buy the pet at $180, the original contract offer no longer stand since the bargained price is a formal counter offer. It repudiates the initial offer and the buyer cannot succeed in an action to enforce the contract if the owner of the said dog sells it to a third party at whatever cost.

The other elements of offer are inherent in window displays and auctions. Goods displayed on the shelves of a shop implies that the owner of such goods have tendered to