BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Oral acceptances are effective the moment they are spoken directly to the offeror. An offeror’s attempt to word the offer so that the silence of the offeree would appear to be a genuine acceptance is valid. A unilateral acceptance occurs when an offeree indicates acceptance by giving a promise.

Detailed explanation-2: -An offeror’s attempt to word the offer so that silence would appear to be an acceptance will not work. Unilateral Acceptance – In some offers, the offeror requires that the offeree indicate acceptance by performing his or her obligations under the contract.

Detailed explanation-3: -The untimely acceptance of an offer. Such an acceptance is not valid although it does have the legal status of a counteroffer. The general rule is that silence does not constitute acceptance.

Detailed explanation-4: -This means that when an offer is proposed, the offeror cannot say that if no reply came within a given time, then the offer is bound to be accepted. An offeree’s silence cannot amount to acceptance, once again.

Detailed explanation-5: -Felthouse v Bindley [1862] EWHC CP J35, is the leading English contract law case on the rule that one cannot impose an obligation on another to reject one’s offer. This is sometimes misleadingly expressed as a rule that “silence cannot amount to acceptance".