Offer case recall

Question 1

Name two cases that establish the principle that an offer can be made through conduct?

Answer 1

1. The Aramis

2. Smith v Hughes

Question 2

What case establishes the principle that an offer must be communicated in order to be considered valid?

Answer 2

Taylor v Laird

Question 3

What case establishes the principle that the offeror must have intent to be bound by his offer?

Answer 3

Storer v Manchester city council

Question 4

What case establishes the principle that an offer must be specific, definite and complete to be valid?

Answer 4

Guthing v Lynn

Question 5

What case establishes the principle that an offer need not have all the specific terms, and that they can be settled at a later stage?

Answer 5

Master v Cameron

Question 6

What two cases established the principle that the display of goods in a shop window is not an offer but an invitation to treat?

Answer 6

1. Pharmaceutical society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists Ltd
2. Fisher v Bell

Question 7

What case established the principle that an advertisement is not an offer but an invitation to treat?

Answer 7

Partridge v Crittenden

Question 8

What case establishes the principle that advertisements in unilateral contracts are not invitations to treat, but are offers.

Answer 8

Carlil v Carbolic Smokeball

Question 9

What case establishes the principle that an invitation to tender is an invitation to treat and not an offer?

Answer 9

Spencer v Harding

Question 10

What case establishes the principle that a tendering board is under an implied obligation to review or consider all offers made to them?

Answer 10

Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool Borough Council

Question 11

What case establishes the principle that an auctioneers request for bids is not an offer but an invitation to treat?

Answer 11

Payne v Cave

Question 12

What 2 cases establish the principle that auctions held without reserve are offers and not invitations to treat?

Answer 12

1. Heathcote Ball v Barry

2. Warlow v Harrison

Question 13

What case establishes the principle that the supply / request for information is not an offer but an invitation to treat?

Answer 13

Harvey v Facey

Question 14

What case establishes the principle that where a statement of price intends an offer, the statement will be binding if accepted.

Answer 14

Bigg v Boyd Gibbins

Question 15

What case establishes the principle that a declaration of intention is an invitation to treat?

Answer 15

Harris v Nickerson

Question 16

What case establishes the principle that termination of an offer can happen when a reasonable time within which it can be accepted has lapsed.

Answer 16

Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore

Question 17

What case establishes the principle that the failure of a precondition is a ground for termination of an offer?

Answer 17

Financing’s Ltd v Stimson

Question 18

What case establishes the principle that a counter offer kills or destroys the original offer

Answer 18

Hyde v Wrench

Question 19

What case establishes the principle that an offer is terminated once the offeree is made aware of the offerors death?

Answer 19

Reynolds v Atherton

Question 20

What case establishes the principle that death itself does not terminate a contract?

Answer 20

Bradbury v Morgan

Question 21

What case establishes the principle that an offer can be withdrawn at any time before it has been accepted?

Answer 21

Routledge v Grant

Question 22

What 2 cases establish the principle that the offeror must inform the offeree that the offer is being revoked in order for it to be considered valid?

Answer 22

1. Stevenson v McLean

2. Bryne v Van Tienhoven

Question 23

What case establishes the principle that revocation of an offer can be communicated by a reliable source?

Answer 23

Dickinson v Dodds

Question 24

What 2 cases establish the principle that once the offeree has commenced performance in a unilateral contract, then the offer cannot be revoked?

Answer 24

1. Errington v Errington

2. Daulia v Four Millbank nominees