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As a bilateral contractby an exchange of pro
Facts: mistake about
1) Acceptance has to be follows that there cou
price, seller meant to
communicated, postal rule acceptance in law u
'In the eyes of the sell goods by piece
does not apply to offer had been receiv
reasonable bystander is not by pound
instantaneous communication contract is formed wh
Question: whether there a valid acceptance?' are only cross-of
email acceptance Held: equity - not allow
2) Contract is complete sent at 6pm was buyer to take advantage of
when acceptance effective immediately mistake - custom of trade
received by offeror Courts apply an objective showed - the universal
practice of by piece had
test to determine valid Wh
been previously negotiated
acceptance be
Held: email
is
3) Email sent at 6pm was NOT acceptance was
Hartog v Shields c
sent out of business hours effective immediately
p
Thomas v BPE
Blackburn J stated...
Solicitors
Facts: concerned the But
effectiveness of an arbitration be
Tinn v Hoffman
notice sent by email
ign
The general rule is that mad
Bernuth Lins ltd v High some objective evidence
Held: email notice is Seas Shipping Ltd (The that acceptance has been
Clarke J 'there is no Acceptance must
effective when it has Eastern Navigator) communicated to the
reason why...delivery of been sent thought the be recieved
offeror is required
a document by
email...should regarded
recipient chose to Communication of
ignore it thinking it
as essentially different was junk mail acceptance
from communication by Facts: D app
post, fax or telex' Non-postal
acceptance Powell v Lee appointment as h
panel decided t
E.g. telex, email, fax, him but did
hand delivery, voice mail Held: no contract since communicate thi
Brinkibon Ltd v D's acceptance of Pl's
Stahl Und offer was defectively
Received in normal Entores v Miles communicated
working hours is deemed Far East Corpn
to be received and
effective straight away Lord Wilberforce
on Telex Acceptance must be
communication... properly communicated
by offer or authorised
Lord Fraser - once Held: where parties are persons (e.g. agent)
message received on talking to each other,
Instantaneous acceptance must be heard
offers telex machine, The message may not communication
not unreasonable to to be communicated
reach the designated
Because offeror treat it as delivered to recipient immediately - Some external/ objective
responsibility to the offeror may be sent out of office Senders/recipients manifestation of
arrange prompt time with intention to be may not be acceptance is required
LD also said if due to
handling of read at a later time principles to the offerors mistake - e.g. ink on
messages contract, may be
Lord Denning used the teleprinter fails, but clerk
servants/agents does not ask for it to be
example of an aircraft
There may be some being too loud to hear repeated - offeror is bound
error at recipients end the acceptance
which prevents receipt
at the intended time of No universal rule can cover
all cases...resolved by But if without fault on offeror side
sender
reference to intentions of - then LD doesn't think there is a
Must wait till aircraft is contract - question is which of the
the parties, sound
gone before acceptance 2 innocent parties should bear the
business practice, and in
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