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Williams v Roffey

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Performance of contractual duties can be good consideration if…
a has reasonable doubt that B will perform on time and gains a practical benefit from speedy performance
B’S PROMISE CANNOT BE GIVEN AS A RESULT OF DURESS/FRAUD

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Hartley v Ponsonby (sailors doing more)

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Performance of an existing contractual duty was good performance because it went above of what was normally expected

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Shadwell v Shadwell

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Request requirement for consideration was overlooked

HOWEVER: Erle CJ based judgement on reliance rather then consideration

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Bunn v Rees and Parker

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ICLR in commercial arrangements

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May and Butcher v The King

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The courts cannot give a reasonable price in the absence of agreement - no guarantee the parties will be able to agree

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Foakes v Beer

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Part payment of a debt is not good consideration (even if promised, promisor can claim debt back at any later point)

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Welby v Drake

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Part payment of a debt by a 3rd party is good consideration because new contract

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Rose and Frank v Crompton Bros.

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ICLR in commercial arrangements can be drafted away

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Williams v Carwardine (death bed confession)

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Knowledge of the offer - motivation in responding to it irrelevant

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Felthouse v Bindley (uncle + nephew)

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Silence/inactivity does not constitute acceptance, has to be communicated
Willes J: no right to impose sale, keep in mind practice of inertia selling

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Adams v Lindsell

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Postal rule: acceptance sent by post occurs at the moment of posting

JUSTIFICATION: knowledge of acceptance –> knowledge of knowledge of acceptance …

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Sale of Goods Act, s. 57(2)

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Fall of auctioneer’s hammer = acceptance

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Mountford v Scott

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Offer can not be revoked when consideration has been given. Here £1 paid turned converted offer into option (binding contract)

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Daulia v Four Millbank Nominees

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Complete performance in unilateral contracts = acceptance

Here: asking to send written agreement = unilateral offer

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Smith v Hughes (old oats)

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The parties intentions are objectively evaluated - what is reasonably believed to be the ether’s intention/grounds to rely on

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Powell v Lee

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Acceptance can be communicated by a 3rd party (authorised by offeree)

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Re Selctmove

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Williams v Roffey criteria cannot be extended to debt

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Dickinson v Dodds

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Revocation can be communicated by a 3rd party.

COMPARE to snapping up cases, but James LJ based judgement on ad idem principle

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Balfour v Balfour

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No ICLR in domestic arrangements

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Partridge v Crittenden

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Adverts = ITT

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Still v Myrick (sailors)

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Performance of an existing contractual duty is not good consideration

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Hyde v Wrench

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A counter offer terminates original offer

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No-reserve auction

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An auction in which the item for sale will be sold regardless of price

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Chappell and Co v Nestle

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Consideration must be sufficient (in the eyes of the law) NOT adequate
Chocolate wrappers = consideration

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Treitel on "Offer"
"An expression of willingness to contract on specified terms made with the intention that it is to become legally binding as it is accepted"
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Hartog v Colin and Shields (Argentinian hare skins)
Snapping up case
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BRS v Arthur Crutchley || Butler Machine Corp v Ex-Cell-O
The battle of the forms: exchange sets of standard terms and conditions which are inconsistent --> a variation in terms has the effect of creating a counter offer
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Household Fire Insurance Co v Grant
Postal rule applies even if letter is lost/destroyed | Thesiger LJ: no hardship because post usually doesn't fail
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Storer v MCC
An offer must be clear and certain. "Will" was
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White v Bluett (son complaining)
Giving up a legal right you don't have is not good consideration
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Fisher v Bell (flick knife in show window)
Display of goods in shop window = ITT
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Luxor v Cooper
Acceptance of unilateral offers STRICT VIEW: full performance needed. Lord Russel's reasoning - worth the risk
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McKendrick on ICLR
Do the dealings justify legal consequences? See Parker v Clark (care arrangement): no relation but parties must have envisaged that legal remedy would be available upon breach
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Collins v Godefroy (subpoenaed)
Performance of a public duty is not good consideration
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Stevenson, Jacques and Co v McLean
Requests for further information will not be counter offers and therefor not terminate original offers. Lush J: counter offer must constitute offer that can be accepted. Interrogatory language? Matter ancillary to contract? Change of material terms?
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Conditions for Consideration
1) Consideration must not be past. 2) Consideration must move from the promisee to the promisor 3) Consideration must be sufficient but need not be adequate 4) Performance of an existing duty is not good consideration 5) Part payment of a debt is not good consideration
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Howell Securities v Hughes
Postal rule can be ousted ALSO: postal rule doesn't apply when it would cause " manifest inconvenience and absurdity"
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Thomas v Thomas || Currie v Misa
Consideration = what is asked of the promisee, benefit to the promisor (CJ Mason: acceptance viewed from the promisor's side)
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Eastwood v Kenyon (ward) || Roscorla v Thomas (sale)
Consideration must not be past
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Lampleigh v Brathwait (attend upon the king to secure a pardon)
Past consideration can be good consideration if it was done at the promisor's request
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The Brimnes
If acceptance is received during office hours it is communicated. Here, it was the offeror's fault for ignoring it
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Korbetis v Transgrain
An acceptance addressed incorrectly by the offered is ONLY from the moment it arrives (if it's still open by then) ALSO: postal rule applies to faxes (unresolved before)
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British Bank for Foreign Trading v Novinex
In executed agreement an independent agreement arises from the fact of performance, implied by conduct (otherwise on party will have been unjustly enriched at the expense of the other)
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Spencer v Harding
TENDER: There was no stipulation to sell to the highest price --> no unilateral offers Willes J: merely attempt to see if offers were obtainable
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Scotson v Pegg (coal)
Performance of a duty owed to a 3rd party is good consideration (they gain right to sue for breach)
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Wade v Simeon
Giving up claim brought in bad faith is not good consideration McKendrick: uneasy compromise resting on knowledge of claimant
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Treitel on Leonidas D
Silence should not be acceptance - other causes for silence
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REMEMBER ABOUT AUCTIONS
Contracts with the auctioneer, not the seller --> C entitled to damages NOT goods themselves
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Routledge v Grant
Offer can be revoked at any time before acceptance. 6 weeks to accept --> 6 weeks to revoke because no consideration has been given in exchange for gratuitous promise to keep offer open
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Chwee Kin Kong v Digilandmall.com
Snapping up case
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Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. (REMEMBER £1000 deposited at the bank)
Unilateral contracts, prescribing an act, performance of which constitutes acceptance Acceptance can be by conduct
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GNR v Whitman
Revocation of unilateral offers. STRICT VIEW: any time before complete performance
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Grainger and son v Gough (wine list)
Parker B suggested that if the manufacturer advertises, this might be an offer, as they are theoretically capable of meeting any demand. Here, the merchant couldn't possible --> ITT
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Sudbrooke Trading v Eggleton
An agreement to negotiate can be binding if there is a mechanism through which a valid price can be negotiated
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Tinn v Hoffman
Cross-offers do not form a contract - further communication of acceptance needed - A particular mode of acceptance can be prescribed, Smith and Thomas accredit that to freedom of contract
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Courtney and Fairburn v Tolaini
An agreement to negotiate is not binding
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Cook v Wright
Not taking legal action = consideration | McKendrick: promised sustained detriment, not being able to take legal action
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Re McArdle
Less likely past consideration = good consideration because payment was understood to be due because domestic context here
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Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking
Vending machines are not ITT (acceptance needs conscious choosing and here there is only one such moment - when money is put in machine. It therefore must be acceptance of offer by machine)
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Harris v Nickerson (Commission broker)
Claimed expenses after office furniture was withdrawn from auction --> no contract or policy reasons: in Barry v Davis only one person could have sued, here every person attending could have COMPARE with Grainger & Sons v Gough - protection of business people from indeterminate liability
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Gibson v Manchester CC
An offer must be clear and certain. "May" was not
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Byrne v Van Tienhoven (letter)
Intention to revoke has to be communicated before acceptance. Here there was a contract before the letter to withdraw reached plaintiff when he had already accepted via telegraph
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Vitol v Norelf
Seller's silence and failure to take further steps to perform contract = acceptance of buyers of buyer's imposition NO WILLES J IMPOSITION HERE
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Pharmaceutical Society of GB v Boots Cash Chemists
Placing goods on supermarket shelves = ITT IMPORTANT: Poole casebook suggests that at normal service counters, specific alterations at request --> binding contract might be concluded
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Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore
An offer can lapse. Here acceptance after 6 months of non-communication
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Combe v Combe
Consideration must be requested. Here, the husband did not ask wife not to apply for maintenance
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Rose v Pim
Objective view on contract formation: Lord Denning - "outwardly expressed"
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What's the deal with auctions/tenders?
Collateral processes of contract formation at the same time as main transaction
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The Eurymedon
Approved Scotson v Pegg - desire to find consideration in tripartitecommercial cases, has to work
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Taylor v Laird
An offer must be communicated
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Pinnel's case
Part payment of a debt can be good consideration if DIFFERENT 1) thing 2) place 3) time (earlier)
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Payne v Cave
Auctions: bilateral contracts - offers by bidders, acceptance with fall of hammer by auctioneer
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Pao On v Lau Yiu Long
Past consideration = good consideration if 1) done at promisor's request 2) parties understood Act to be remunerated somehow 3) must have been legally enforceable (no duress, illegality...)
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Merritt v Merritt
ICLR in domestic arrangement because relationship had broken down
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Barry v Davies
Auction for items WITHOUT reserve = unilateral offer accepted by highest bid
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Harvela Investments v Royal Trust of Canada
Referral bids are not permissible (Justification: they rely on other people rather than offeror/offeree - don't mirror offer)
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Errington v Errington (mortgage)
Revocation of unilateral offers Lord Denning's less strict approach: acceptance as soon as performance begins (cannot be withdrawn but not bound to transfer until fully performed) Compare with Luxor v Cooper and Lord Russel's strict approach
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Harvey v Facey || Clifton v Palumbo
In sales of land, the courts require more certainty and completeness
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Chitty on misdirected letters
Offeror already has to take risk of accidents in the post, unreasonable to impose the further risk of offeree's mistake Misdirected acceptance should take effect when least favourable to party responsible --> is maximum damage the right approach seeing that misdirected acceptance is already not protected by postal rule?
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Entores v Miles Far East Corporation
Acceptance needs to be communicated and occurs when received NOTE: Lord Denning - awareness of miscommunication and failure to Act accordingly --> responsibility
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Brodgen v Metropolitan Railway
Acceptance by conduct is possible | Lord Blackburn: treated as if binding
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Glasbrook Bros v Glamorgan CC (football club) || | Ward v Byham
Performance of a public duty is only good consideration if it goes above and beyond existing duty
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Lipkin Gorman v Karpnale (playboy club chips)
Chips were not good consideration despite Chappell v Nestle: HOL found sufficient flexibility in doctrine of consideration to avoid an inconvenient outcome (no restoration of stolen money)
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Hillas v Arcos
The courts uphold agreements wherever possible
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Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club v Blackpool BC
Unilateral offers to CONSIDER all bids are accepted by placing valid bid (contractually bound to CONSIDER) Lord Bingham: reasonable to assume they'd be considered
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Re Casey's Patents (commercial context)
Past consideration can be good consideration if payment was understood to be due (more likely in commercial context)
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Henthorn v Fraser
Postal rule does not apply when unreasonable to use post (here: postal strike was on) Lord Herschell's test: within the contemplation of the parties ?
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Winn v Bull
Conditional agreements are not binding until the condition is fulfilled
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Treitel on Grainger v Gough
When price list sent on request to a single customer --> maybe an offer not ITT
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Incomplete/uncertain agreements
Matters left unspecified may be supplied by implication of terms,statute or by machinery within the contract

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