Summary Requirements of Contract

essential requirements of contract

Invitation To Treat



• it is an invitation for a party to make an offer
• goods on display in a shop
• the customer does not make the offer until they take the goods to the till
• Pharamaceutical Society v Boots
• goods on a display window
• fisher v bell
• advertisements and price lists
• partridge v crittenden
• lots at an auction
• british car auctions v wright




Offer

• offer is a statement that contains the essential terms expressed in reasonably
certain terms
o the goods, the price, the delivery date
• the offer must be communicated
• taylor v laird
• offer can be made to the whole world
• carbolic smoke ball case
• terms of the contract must be certain
• guthing v lynn
• offer can be withdrawn any time before acceptance
• routeldge case
• the withdrawal must be communicated
• byrne v leon case
• offer can be terminated by:
• being accepted and a contract is formed
• offer withdrawn
• a specified time can lapse
• a ‘reasonable time’ can lapse
• ramsgate hotel case
• counter offer made
• hyde v wrench